Re: [PATCH] xen/trace: avoid clang warning on function pointers

[Nick Desaulniers]

On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 10:41 AM Nathan Chancellor
<natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Jul 12, 2019 at 10:58:48AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > clang-9 does not like the way that the is_signed_type() compares
> > function pointers deep inside of the trace even macros:
> >
> > In file included from arch/x86/xen/trace.c:21:
> > In file included from include/trace/events/xen.h:475:
> > In file included from include/trace/define_trace.h:102:
> > In file included from include/trace/trace_events.h:467:
> > include/trace/events/xen.h:69:7: error: ordered comparison of function pointers ('xen_mc_callback_fn_t' (aka 'void (*)(void *)') and 'xen_mc_callback_fn_t') [-Werror,-Wordered-compare-function-pointers]
> >                     __field(xen_mc_callback_fn_t, fn)
> >                     ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > include/trace/trace_events.h:415:29: note: expanded from macro '__field'
> >  #define __field(type, item)     __field_ext(type, item, FILTER_OTHER)
> >                                 ^
> > include/trace/trace_events.h:401:6: note: expanded from macro '__field_ext'
> >                                  is_signed_type(type), filter_type);    \
> >                                  ^
> > include/linux/trace_events.h:540:44: note: expanded from macro 'is_signed_type'
> >  #define is_signed_type(type)    (((type)(-1)) < (type)1)
> >                                               ^
> > note: (skipping 1 expansions in backtrace; use -fmacro-backtrace-limit=0 to see all)
> > include/trace/trace_events.h:77:16: note: expanded from macro 'TRACE_EVENT'
> >                              PARAMS(tstruct),                  \
> >                              ~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > include/linux/tracepoint.h:95:25: note: expanded from macro 'PARAMS'
> >  #define PARAMS(args...) args
> >                         ^
> > include/trace/trace_events.h:455:2: note: expanded from macro 'DECLARE_EVENT_CLASS'
> >         tstruct;                                                        \
> >         ^~~~~~~
> >
> > I guess the warning is reasonable in principle, though this seems to
> > be the only instance we get in the entire kernel today.
> > Shut up the warning by making it a void pointer in the exported
> > structure.
> >
> > Fixes: c796f213a693 ("xen/trace: add multicall tracing")
> > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>
>
> Nick suggested this as well, I think it's reasonable to work around it
> in this one location since this is indeed the only instance of this
> warning that I see in the kernel tree across all of my builds.
>
> Reviewed-by: Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@xxxxxxxxx>


Steven, Ingo, would one of you mind picking up this fix, please?  See
for multiple reports:
https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/216
-- 
Thanks,
~Nick Desaulniers