Re: [PATCH -mm] x86_64: kill 19000+ sparse warnings

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Thu Apr 26 2007 - 02:06:06 EST


Andrew Morton wrote:
On Wed, 25 Apr 2007 22:45:09 -0700 Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

From: Randy Dunlap <randy.dunlap@xxxxxxxxxx>

Eliminate 19439 (!!) sparse warnings like:
include/linux/mm.h:321:22: warning: constant 0xffff810000000000 is so big it is unsigned long

Eliminate 56 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/setup.c:248:16: warning: constant 0xffffffff80000000 is so big it is unsigned long

Eliminate 5 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c:49:13: warning: constant 0xfffffffffff00000 is so big it is unsigned long

Eliminate 23 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:551:37: warning: constant 0xffffc20000000000 is so big it is unsigned long

Eliminate 6 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/module.c:49:13: warning: constant 0xffffffff88000000 is so big it is unsigned long

Eliminate 23 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/mm/init.c:552:6: warning: constant 0xffffe1ffffffffff is so big it is unsigned long

Eliminate 3 sparse warnings like:
arch/x86_64/kernel/e820.c:186:17: warning: constant 0x3fffffffffff is so big it is long

...

+#ifdef __ASSEMBLY__
#define MAXMEM 0x3fffffffffff
#define VMALLOC_START 0xffffc20000000000
#define VMALLOC_END 0xffffe1ffffffffff
#define MODULES_VADDR 0xffffffff88000000
#define MODULES_END 0xfffffffffff00000
#define MODULES_LEN (MODULES_END - MODULES_VADDR)
+#else
+#define MAXMEM 0x3fffffffffffUL
+#define VMALLOC_START 0xffffc20000000000UL
+#define VMALLOC_END 0xffffe1ffffffffffUL
+#define MODULES_VADDR 0xffffffff88000000UL
+#define MODULES_END 0xfffffffffff00000UL
+#define MODULES_LEN (MODULES_END - MODULES_VADDR)
+#endif

hm, the duplication is unfortunate.

Yep.

I wonder if it's worth doing a cpp token-pasting trick to avoid having to
do that.

oh. there is already an include/asm-x86_64/const.h that will help
with that. I'll try it out.


--
~Randy
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