Re: [PATCH 05/21] powerpc: Avoid comparison of unsigned long >= 0 in pfn_valid

[Christophe LEROY]

Le 25/02/2018 Ã 18:22, Mathieu Malaterre a ÃcritÂ:
> Rewrite comparison since all values compared are of type `unsigned long`.
>
> Fix a warning (treated as error in W=1):
>
>    CC      arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.o
> In file included from ./include/linux/bug.h:5:0,
>                   from ./include/linux/cpumask.h:13,
>                   from ./include/linux/smp.h:13,
>                   from ./include/linux/kernel_stat.h:5,
>                   from arch/powerpc/kernel/irq.c:35:
> ./include/linux/dma-mapping.h: In function âdma_map_resourceâ:
> ./arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h:129:32: error: comparison of unsigned expression >= 0 is always true [-Werror=type-limits]
>   #define pfn_valid(pfn)  ((pfn) >= ARCH_PFN_OFFSET && (pfn) < max_mapnr)
>                                  ^
> Suggested-by: Segher Boessenkool <segher@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
>   arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h | 3 ++-
>   1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
> index 8da5d4c1cab2..19dea64e7ed2 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/page.h
> @@ -126,7 +126,8 @@ extern long long virt_phys_offset;
>   
>   #ifdef CONFIG_FLATMEM
>   #define ARCH_PFN_OFFSET		((unsigned long)(MEMORY_START >> PAGE_SHIFT))
> -#define pfn_valid(pfn)		((pfn) >= ARCH_PFN_OFFSET && (pfn) < max_mapnr)
> +#define pfn_valid(pfn) \
> +		(((pfn) - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET) < (max_mapnr - ARCH_PFN_OFFSET))

What will happen when ARCH_PFN_OFFSET is not nul and pfn is lower than 
ARCH_PFN_OFFSET ?

Christophe

>   #endif
>   
>   #define virt_to_pfn(kaddr)	(__pa(kaddr) >> PAGE_SHIFT)