Re: [PATCH v16 mfd 8/8] mfd: ocelot: add support for the vsc7512 chip via spi

[Colin Foster <colin.foster@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Tue, Aug 16, 2022 at 11:52:53AM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 5:35 PM Ido Schimmel <idosch@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Aug 15, 2022 at 07:19:13AM -0700, Colin Foster wrote:
> > > Something is going on that I don't fully understand with <asm/byteorder.h>.
> > > I don't quite see how ocelot-core is throwing all sorts of errors in x86
> > > builds now:
> > >
> > > https://patchwork.hopto.org/static/nipa/667471/12942993/build_allmodconfig_warn/stderr
> > >
> > > Snippet from there:
> > >
> > > /home/nipa/nipa/tests/patch/build_32bit/build_32bit.sh: line 21: ccache gcc: command not found
> > > ../drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c: note: in included file (through ../include/linux/bitops.h, ../include/linux/kernel.h, ../arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h, ../arch/x86/include/asm/current.h, ../include/linux/sched.h, ...):
> > > ../arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h:66:1: warning: unreplaced symbol 'return'
> > > ../drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c: note: in included file (through ../include/linux/bitops.h, ../include/linux/kernel.h, ../arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h, ../arch/x86/include/asm/current.h, ../include/linux/sched.h, ...):
> > > ../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:29:9: warning: unreplaced symbol 'mask'
> > > ../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:30:9: warning: unreplaced symbol 'p'
> > > ../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:32:10: warning: unreplaced symbol 'p'
> > > ../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:32:16: warning: unreplaced symbol 'mask'
> > > ../include/asm-generic/bitops/generic-non-atomic.h:27:1: warning: unreplaced symbol 'return'
> > > ../drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c: note: in included file (through ../arch/x86/include/asm/bitops.h, ../include/linux/bitops.h, ../include/linux/kernel.h, ../arch/x86/include/asm/percpu.h, ../arch/x86/include/asm/current.h, ...):
> > > ../include/asm-generic/bitops/instrumented-non-atomic.h:26:1: warning: unreplaced symbol 'return'
> > >
> > >
> > > <asm/byteorder.h> was included in both drivers/mfd/ocelot-spi.c and
> > > drivers/mfd/ocelot.h previously, though Andy pointed out there didn't
> > > seem to be any users... and I didn't either. I'm sure there's something
> > > I must be missing.
> >
> > I got similar errors in our internal CI yesterday. Fixed by compiling
> > sparse from git:
> > https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/devel/sparse/sparse.git/commit/?id=0e1aae55e49cad7ea43848af5b58ff0f57e7af99
> >
> > The update is also available in the "testing" repo in case you are
> > running Fedora 35 / 36:
> > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-c58b53730f
> > https://bodhi.fedoraproject.org/updates/FEDORA-2022-2bc333ccac
> 
> Debian still produces the same errors which makes sparse useless.

I haven't jumped into this one yet. But everything seems to be compiling
and running in ARM.

Do you think this is a false positive / unrelated to this patch? Or do
you think this is a true error that I did wrong? I haven't been around
for too many releases, so I'm not sure if this is common after an -rc1.

> 
> -- 
> With Best Regards,
> Andy Shevchenko