Hi Fengguang, Thanks for pointing this out we have a fix which addresses these issues. What's interesting is I did not see these warnings I tried to reproduce the errors on my setup. Is there a special flag we can use to reproduce the sparse warnings. Thanks for your help, Jay- -----Original Message----- From: Fengguang Wu [mailto:fengguang.wu@xxxxxxxxx] Sent: Friday, September 28, 2012 9:37 AM To: Vipul Pandya Cc: kernel-janitors@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx; Jay Hernandez; netdev@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx Subject: drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:363:64: sparse: incorrect type in argument 3 (different base types) Hi Vipul, FYI, there are new sparse warnings show up in commit: 5afc8b84eb7b29e4646d6e8ca7e6d7196031d6f7 cxgb4: Add functions to read memory via PCIE memory window drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:361:33: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:361:33: expected restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:361:33: got unsigned int + drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:363:64: sparse: incorrect type in argument 3 (different base types) drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:363:64: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] val drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:363:64: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:694:31: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:694:31: expected unsigned int [unsigned] [usertype] <noident> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:694:31: got restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:898:25: sparse: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:898:25: sparse: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:898:25: sparse: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:898:25: sparse: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:898:25: sparse: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:898:25: sparse: cast to restricted __be32 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:2177:25: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different base types) drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:2177:25: expected restricted __be32 [usertype] <noident> drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:2177:25: got unsigned int drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c: In function 't4_memory_rw.constprop.6': drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c:462:1: warning: the frame size of 2056 bytes is larger than 1024 bytes [-Wframe-larger-than=] vim +363 drivers/net/ethernet/chelsio/cxgb4/t4_hw.c 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 347) 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 348) /* 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 349) * Setup offset into PCIE memory window. Address must be a 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 350) * MEMWIN0_APERTURE-byte-aligned address. (Read back MA register to 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 351) * ensure that changes propagate before we attempt to use the new 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 352) * values.) 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 353) */ 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 354) t4_write_reg(adap, PCIE_MEM_ACCESS_OFFSET, 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 355) addr & ~(MEMWIN0_APERTURE - 1)); 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 356) t4_read_reg(adap, PCIE_MEM_ACCESS_OFFSET); 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 357) 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 358) /* Collecting data 4 bytes at a time upto MEMWIN0_APERTURE */ 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 359) for (i = 0; i < MEMWIN0_APERTURE; i = i+0x4) { 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 360) if (dir) 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 361) *data++ = t4_read_reg(adap, (MEMWIN0_BASE + i)); 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 362) else 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 @363) t4_write_reg(adap, (MEMWIN0_BASE + i), *data++); 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 364) } 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 365) 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 366) return 0; 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 367) } 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 368) 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 369) /** 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 370) * t4_memory_rw - read/write EDC 0, EDC 1 or MC via PCIE memory window 5afc8b84 (Vipul Pandya 2012-09-26 371) * @adap: the adapter --- 0-DAY kernel build testing backend Open Source Technology Centre Fengguang Wu, Yuanhan Liu Intel Corporation -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe kernel-janitors" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html