[PATCH] gianfar: Fix warnings when built on 64-bit

Scott Wood scottwood at freescale.com
Thu Jul 30 02:02:41 AEST 2015


On Wed, 2015-07-29 at 10:02 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 29 July 2015 00:24:37 Scott Wood wrote:
> > +#ifdef CONFIG_PM
> >  static void lock_tx_qs(struct gfar_private *priv)
> >  {
> >     int i;
> > @@ -580,6 +581,7 @@ static void unlock_tx_qs(struct gfar_private *priv)
> >     for (i = 0; i < priv->num_tx_queues; i++)
> >             spin_unlock(&priv->tx_queue[i]->txlock);
> >  }
> > +#endif
> >  
> 
> This seems unrelated and should probably be a separate fix.

It's related in that it fixes a warning -- the 64-bit build didn't have 
CONFIG_PM -- though I should have been clearer about that in the changelog.

> > @@ -2964,8 +2967,13 @@ int gfar_clean_rx_ring(struct gfar_priv_rx_q 
> > *rx_queue, int rx_work_limit)
> >             gfar_init_rxbdp(rx_queue, bdp, bufaddr);
> >  
> >             /* Update Last Free RxBD pointer for LFC */
> > -           if (unlikely(rx_queue->rfbptr && priv->tx_actual_en))
> > -                   gfar_write(rx_queue->rfbptr, (u32)bdp);
> > +           if (unlikely(rx_queue->rfbptr && priv->tx_actual_en)) {
> > +                   u32 bdp_dma;
> > +
> > +                   bdp_dma = lower_32_bits(rx_queue->rx_bd_dma_base);
> > +                   bdp_dma += (uintptr_t)bdp - (uintptr_t)base;
> > +                   gfar_write(rx_queue->rfbptr, bdp_dma);
> > +           }
> >  
> >             /* Update to the next pointer */
> >             bdp = next_bd(bdp, base, rx_queue->rx_ring_size);
> 
> You are fixing two problems here: the warning about a size cast, and
> the fact that the driver is using the wrong pointer. I'd suggest
> explaining it in the changelog.
> 
> Note that we normally rely on void pointer arithmetic in the kernel, so
> I'd write it without the uintptr_t casts as 
> 
>       bdp_dma = lower_32_bits(rx_queue->rx_bd_dma_base + (base - bdp));

But those aren't void pointers, and rx_bd_dma_base isn't a pointer, so you'd 
get the wrong answer doing that.

-Scott



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