Re: [PATCH v1 1/7] ACPI: sysfs: Make sparse happy about address space in use

From: Rafael J. Wysocki
Date: Thu Jun 17 2021 - 11:46:52 EST


On Wed, Jun 16, 2021 at 7:03 PM Andy Shevchenko
<andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Sparse is not happy about address space in use in acpi_data_show():
>
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:428:14: warning: incorrect type in assignment (different address spaces)
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:428:14: expected void [noderef] __iomem *base
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:428:14: got void *
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:431:59: warning: incorrect type in argument 4 (different address spaces)
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:431:59: expected void const *from
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:431:59: got void [noderef] __iomem *base
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:433:30: warning: incorrect type in argument 1 (different address spaces)
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:433:30: expected void *logical_address
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c:433:30: got void [noderef] __iomem *base
>
> Indeed, acpi_os_map_memory() returns a void pointer with dropped specific
> address space. Hence, we don't need to carry out __iomem in acpi_data_show().
>
> Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> drivers/acpi/sysfs.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> index 88629d26bd48..767aa65e4bdd 100644
> --- a/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> +++ b/drivers/acpi/sysfs.c
> @@ -419,7 +419,7 @@ static ssize_t acpi_data_show(struct file *filp, struct kobject *kobj,
> loff_t offset, size_t count)
> {
> struct acpi_data_attr *data_attr;
> - void __iomem *base;
> + void *base;
> ssize_t rc;
>
> data_attr = container_of(bin_attr, struct acpi_data_attr, attr);
> --

Applied as 5.14 material along with patches [2-4,7/7] from this series.

Patches [5-6/7] did not apply for me on top of my acpi-sysfs branch
(that is included into my linux-next branch), so I have not applied
them.

Thanks!