Re: [PATCH] dma-mapping: Allow use of DMA_BIT_MASK(64) in global scope

From: Marek Szyprowski

Date: Wed Nov 05 2025 - 07:45:32 EST


On 30.10.2025 15:05, James Clark wrote:
> Clang doesn't like that (1ULL<<(64)) overflows when initializing a
> global scope variable, even if that part of the ternary isn't used when
> n = 64. The same initialization can be done without warnings in function
> scopes, and GCC doesn't mind either way.
>
> The build failure that highlighted this was already fixed in a different
> way [1], which also has detailed links to the Clang issues. However it's
> not going to be long before the same thing happens again, so it's better
> to fix the root cause.
>
> Fix it by using GENMASK_ULL() which does exactly the same thing, is much
> more readable anyway, and doesn't have a shift that overflows.
>
> [1]: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250918-mmp-pdma-simplify-dma-addressing-v1-1-5c2be2b85696@xxxxxxxxxxxx/
>
> Signed-off-by: James Clark <james.clark@xxxxxxxxxx>

Thanks, applied to dma-mapping-fixes branch.

> ---
> include/linux/dma-mapping.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> index 8248ff9363ee..2ceda49c609f 100644
> --- a/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> +++ b/include/linux/dma-mapping.h
> @@ -90,7 +90,7 @@
> */
> #define DMA_MAPPING_ERROR (~(dma_addr_t)0)
>
> -#define DMA_BIT_MASK(n) (((n) == 64) ? ~0ULL : ((1ULL<<(n))-1))
> +#define DMA_BIT_MASK(n) GENMASK_ULL(n - 1, 0)
>
> struct dma_iova_state {
> dma_addr_t addr;
>
> ---
> base-commit: e53642b87a4f4b03a8d7e5f8507fc3cd0c595ea6
> change-id: 20251030-james-fix-dma_bit_mask-624dbeb89afa
>
> Best regards,

Best regards
--
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland