Re: drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c:163:56: warning: implicit conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'u16' (aka 'unsigned short') changes value from 131072 to 0
From: Sakari Ailus
Date: Fri Dec 11 2020 - 11:59:53 EST
Hi Andy,
On Mon, Nov 23, 2020 at 12:40:18PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Sat, Nov 21, 2020 at 04:23:05PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> > tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master
> > head: 27bba9c532a8d21050b94224ffd310ad0058c353
> > commit: 7b285f41f7376dc37e7fad1e803995fd39f42848 media: ipu3-cio2: Introduce CIO2_LOP_ENTRIES constant
> > date: 2 months ago
> > config: arm64-randconfig-r031-20201121 (attached as .config)
> > compiler: clang version 12.0.0 (https://github.com/llvm/llvm-project bec968cbb367dd03439c89c1d4ef968ef662d7c0)
> > reproduce (this is a W=1 build):
> > wget https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O ~/bin/make.cross
> > chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
> > # install arm64 cross compiling tool for clang build
> > # apt-get install binutils-aarch64-linux-gnu
> > # https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=7b285f41f7376dc37e7fad1e803995fd39f42848
> > git remote add linus https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
> > git fetch --no-tags linus master
> > git checkout 7b285f41f7376dc37e7fad1e803995fd39f42848
> > # save the attached .config to linux build tree
> > COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=clang make.cross ARCH=arm64
> >
> > If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> > Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> >
> > All warnings (new ones prefixed by >>):
> >
> > >> drivers/media/pci/intel/ipu3/ipu3-cio2.c:163:56: warning: implicit conversion from 'unsigned long' to 'u16' (aka 'unsigned short') changes value from 131072 to 0 [-Wconstant-conversion]
> > entry[1].second_entry.num_of_pages = CIO2_LOP_ENTRIES * CIO2_MAX_LOPS;
> > ~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > 1 warning generated.
>
> Okay, now we have an interesting case. The IP is quite unlikely be used on
> ARM64, but my patches made the clear picture about use of PAGE_SIZE here.
>
> So, I see at least the following options to mitigate the above, i.e.:
> 1/ reduce driver scope to X86
> 2/ fix the variables to be wider type to be able to hold PAGE_SIZE > 4k
> 3/ switch to custom PAGE_SIZE / _SHIFT / _MASK and accompanying macros
>
> And I still consider 3/ is silly move because as we see the driver was
> never assumed to work with big page sizes (besides unsigned short type
> here, PAGE_SHIFT and PAGE_MASK in the original code was as is and on ARM64
> they compiled to 0 values w/o warnings, effectively make the driver
> improperly functioning anyway).
Apologies for the late answer.
I think I'd favour the first option. It's not really useful to be able to
compile this elsewhere; as such the driver doesn't do anything special that
would make it prone to breakage through changes elsewhere.
Would you like to send a patch? :-)
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Kind regards,
Sakari Ailus