On Monday, June 20, 2011 5:03 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Tue, 14 Jun 2011 19:47:19 -0500 H Hartley Sweeten wrote: > >> Hello all, >> >> Sparse is reporting a couple warnings in mm/memblock.c: >> >> warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (9f911029d74e35b becomes 9d74e35b) >> >> The warnings are due to the cast of RED_INACTIVE in memblock_analyze(): >> >> /* Check marker in the unused last array entry */ >> WARN_ON(memblock_memory_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base >> != (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE); >> WARN_ON(memblock_reserved_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base >> != (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE); >> >> And in memblock_init(): >> >> /* Write a marker in the unused last array entry */ >> memblock.memory.regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base = (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE; >> memblock.reserved.regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base = (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE; >> >> Could this cause any problems? If not, is there anyway to quiet the sparse noise? >> > > It's all just a debugging check and that check will continue to work OK > despite this bug. > > But yes, it's ugly and should be fixed. > > I don't think that mm/memblock.c should have reused RED_INACTIVE. > That's a slab thing and wedging it into a phys_addr_t was > inappropriate. > > In fact I don't think RED_INACTIVE should exist. It's just inviting > other subsystems to (ab)use it. It should be replaced by a > slab-specific SLAB_RED_INACTIVE, as slub did with SLUB_RED_INACTIVE. > > > I'd suggest something like the below, which I didn't test. Feel free to > send it back at me, or ignore it ;) > > > diff -puN include/linux/poison.h~a include/linux/poison.h > --- a/include/linux/poison.h~a > +++ a/include/linux/poison.h > @@ -40,6 +40,12 @@ > #define RED_INACTIVE 0x09F911029D74E35BULL /* when obj is inactive */ > #define RED_ACTIVE 0xD84156C5635688C0ULL /* when obj is active */ > > +#ifdef CONFIG_PHYS_ADDR_T_64BIT > +#define MEMBLOCK_INACTIVE 0x3a84fb0144c9e71bULL > +#else > +#define MEMBLOCK_INACTIVE 0x44c9e71bUL > +#endif > + > #define SLUB_RED_INACTIVE 0xbb > #define SLUB_RED_ACTIVE 0xcc > > diff -puN mm/memblock.c~a mm/memblock.c > --- a/mm/memblock.c~a > +++ a/mm/memblock.c > @@ -758,9 +758,9 @@ void __init memblock_analyze(void) > > /* Check marker in the unused last array entry */ > WARN_ON(memblock_memory_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base > - != (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE); > + != MEMBLOCK_INACTIVE); > WARN_ON(memblock_reserved_init_regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base > - != (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE); > + != MEMBLOCK_INACTIVE); > > memblock.memory_size = 0; > > @@ -786,8 +786,8 @@ void __init memblock_init(void) > memblock.reserved.max = INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS; > > /* Write a marker in the unused last array entry */ > - memblock.memory.regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base = (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE; > - memblock.reserved.regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base = (phys_addr_t)RED_INACTIVE; > + memblock.memory.regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base = MEMBLOCK_INACTIVE; > + memblock.reserved.regions[INIT_MEMBLOCK_REGIONS].base = MEMBLOCK_INACTIVE; > > /* Create a dummy zero size MEMBLOCK which will get coalesced away later. > * This simplifies the memblock_add() code below... FWIW, your patch above quiet's the sparse warnings on my system (arm ep93xx) and the system boots and runs fine. If you want it.. Tested-by: H Hartley Sweeten <hsweeten@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Fight unfair telecom internet charges in Canada: sign http://stopthemeter.ca/ Don't email: <a href