[bug report] powerpc/mm/radix: Add tlbflush routines
Aneesh Kumar K.V
aneesh.kumar at linux.vnet.ibm.com
Thu Feb 1 14:31:48 AEDT 2018
On 01/31/2018 09:31 PM, Christophe LEROY wrote:
>
>
> Le 31/01/2018 à 16:45, Dan Carpenter a écrit :
>> Hello Aneesh Kumar K.V,
>>
>> The patch 1a472c9dba6b: "powerpc/mm/radix: Add tlbflush routines"
>> from Apr 29, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning:
>>
>> arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c:218 __local_flush_tlb_page()
>> warn: always true condition '(pid != ~0) => (0-u32max != u64max)'
>>
>> arch/powerpc/mm/tlb_nohash.c
>> 211 void __local_flush_tlb_page(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned
>> long vmaddr,
>> 212 int tsize, int ind)
>> 213 {
>> 214 unsigned int pid;
>> 215
>> 216 preempt_disable();
>> 217 pid = mm ? mm->context.id : 0;
>> 218 if (pid != MMU_NO_CONTEXT)
>> ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
>> 219 _tlbil_va(vmaddr, pid, tsize, ind);
>> 220 preempt_enable();
>> 221 }
>>
>> I don't know very much about PowerPC. The static checker is guessing
>> which headers to pull in instead of relying on the build system so there
>> are a lot of false positives. It's apparently using the
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/book3s/64/tlbflush.h header which does:
>>
>> #define MMU_NO_CONTEXT ~0UL
>>
>> so it's UINT_MAX vs U64_MAX which is making the checker complain.
>
> As far as I can see from arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h,
> mm->context.id is an unsigned long, so pid should also be an unsigned
> long, not an unsigned int ?
>
> Christophe
>
yes.
We did similar fixup for book3s radix
in 9690c15742688e9cb5ee4aa0b08e458551ceea13 (powerpc/mm/radix: Fix
always false comparison against MMU_NO_CONTEXT
)
-aneesh
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