Re: [PATCH v1] soc: rockchip: power-domain: Fix clang warning about negative shift count
From: Matthias Kaehlcke
Date: Mon Mar 13 2017 - 14:49:26 EST
El Mon, Mar 13, 2017 at 10:22:22AM -0700 Matthias Kaehlcke ha dit:
> El Sat, Mar 11, 2017 at 01:03:48PM +0100 Heiko Stuebner ha dit:
>
> > Hi Matthias,
> >
> > Am Freitag, 10. MÃrz 2017, 18:21:53 CET schrieb Matthias Kaehlcke:
> > > The following warning is generated when building with clang:
> > >
> > > drivers/soc/rockchip/pm_domains.c:726:22: error: shift count is negative
> > > [-Werror,-Wshift-count-negative] [RK3399_PD_TCPD0] = DOMAIN_RK3399(8,
> > > 8, -1, false),
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > drivers/soc/rockchip/pm_domains.c:101:2: note: expanded from macro
> > > 'DOMAIN_RK3399' DOMAIN(pwr, status, req, req, req, wakeup)
> > > ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > > drivers/soc/rockchip/pm_domains.c:88:27: note: expanded from macro 'DOMAIN'
> > > .req_mask = (req >= 0) ? BIT(req) : 0, \
> > > ^~~~~~~~
> > > include/linux/bitops.h:6:24: note: expanded from macro 'BIT'
> > >
> > > The BIT macro is evaluated with the negative value -1, even though the
> > > resulting value would not be assigned. To fix this we only pass values
> > > between 0 and 63 to BIT(). Unfortunately this means that we lose the
> > > benefit of the compiler checking for out of bounds errors.
> >
> > I tend to disagree here. This looks more like a case of "fix your compiler".
> >
> > That conditional seems perfectly valid as the BIT(req) will never be reached
> > if req < 0 - your clang simply doesn't recognize the pattern somehow, while
> > for example gcc does.
>
> My interpretation is that with clang the '(req >= 0) ?' condition is
> not evaluated by the preprocessor, but only by the compiler. This seems to
> be different with gcc.
>
> > Catering to specific whims of specific compilers feels somehow wrong, as what
> > will happen if some imaginary third compiler requires another different hack
> > to be satisfied?
>
> I'll check with the clang developers if clang can be changed to behave
> like gcc in this aspect.
FYI:
"We currently don't construct control-flow graphs (CFGs) when
processing initializer expressions in a global context. CFGs have
been used for doing a variety of flow-based warnings in functions, but
at this point they haven't been used for global initializer
expressions."
https://bugs.llvm.org//show_bug.cgi?id=10030
m.