Re: [PATCH] dma: ixm-dma: fix warning comparison of distinct pointer types

[Fabio Estevam]

Hi Anders,

On Thu, Jan 10, 2019 at 9:15 AM Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> The warning got introduced by commit 930507c18304 ("arm64: add basic
> Kconfig symbols for i.MX8"). Since it got enabled for arm64. The warning
> haven't been seen before since size_t was 'unsigned int' when built on
> arm32.
>
> ../drivers/dma/imx-dma.c: In function âimxdma_sg_nextâ:
> ../include/linux/kernel.h:846:29: warning: comparison of distinct pointer types lacks a cast
>    (!!(sizeof((typeof(x) *)1 == (typeof(y) *)1)))
>                              ^~
> ../include/linux/kernel.h:860:4: note: in expansion of macro â__typecheckâ
>    (__typecheck(x, y) && __no_side_effects(x, y))
>     ^~~~~~~~~~~
> ../include/linux/kernel.h:870:24: note: in expansion of macro â__safe_cmpâ
>   __builtin_choose_expr(__safe_cmp(x, y), \
>                         ^~~~~~~~~~
> ../include/linux/kernel.h:879:19: note: in expansion of macro â__careful_cmpâ
>  #define min(x, y) __careful_cmp(x, y, <)
>                    ^~~~~~~~~~~~~
> ../drivers/dma/imx-dma.c:288:8: note: in expansion of macro âminâ
>   now = min(d->len, sg_dma_len(sg));
>         ^~~
>
> Rework so that we use min_t and pass in the size_t that returns the
> minimum of two values, using the specified type.
>
> Signed-off-by: Anders Roxell <anders.roxell@xxxxxxxxxx>

There is a typo in the Subject: s/ixm/imx/ and the prefix should be
dmaengine instead:

dmaengine: imx-dma: fix warning comparison of distinct pointer types

With that fixed:

Reviewed-by: Fabio Estevam <festevam@xxxxxxxxx>