Re: [PATCH v3 2/3] dma-mapping: replace zone_dma_bits by zone_dma_limit
From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Tue Jul 30 2024 - 11:35:02 EST
On Mon, Jul 29, 2024 at 07:12:08PM -0700, Nathan Chancellor wrote:
> > | ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
> > include/linux/dma-mapping.h:77:40: note: expanded from macro 'DMA_BIT_MASK'
> > 77 | #define DMA_BIT_MASK(n) (((n) == 64) ? ~0ULL : ((1ULL<<(n))-1))
> > | ^~~~~
> > 2 warnings generated.
>
> FWIW, this is likely a false positive due to an issue in Clang with the
> control flow graph for global variables:
>
> https://github.com/ClangBuiltLinux/linux/issues/92
>
> DMA_BIT_MASK() has been the biggest offender :/ If there is any way to
> refactor this code to avoid this, that would be great (as that has been
> one of our longest outstanding issues and getting it fixed in the
> compiler does not seem super easy at this point).
I have no idea what you'd want changed here, but I'll happily take
patches.