Hello Martin Schwidefsky, The patch 75c7b6f3f6ba: "s390/time: steer clocksource on STP sync events" from Oct 11, 2016, leads to the following static checker warning: arch/s390/kernel/time.c:422 clock_sync_global() warn: unsigned 'tod_steering_delta' is never less than zero. arch/s390/kernel/time.c 402 static void clock_sync_global(unsigned long long delta) 403 { 404 unsigned long now, adj; 405 struct ptff_qto qto; 406 407 /* Fixup the monotonic sched clock. */ 408 sched_clock_base_cc += delta; 409 /* Adjust TOD steering parameters. */ 410 vdso_data->tb_update_count++; 411 now = get_tod_clock(); 412 adj = tod_steering_end - now; 413 if (unlikely((s64) adj >= 0)) 414 /* Calculate how much of the old adjustment is left. */ 415 tod_steering_delta = ((s64) tod_steering_delta < 0) ? 416 -(adj >> 15) : (adj >> 15); 417 tod_steering_delta += delta; 418 if ((abs(tod_steering_delta) >> 48) != 0) ^^^ Pointless on ULL. 419 panic("TOD clock sync offset %lli is too large to drift\n", 420 tod_steering_delta); 421 tod_steering_end = now + (abs(tod_steering_delta) << 15); ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ 422 vdso_data->ts_dir = (tod_steering_delta < 0) ? 0 : 1; ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^ Maybe just make it s64 and remove the other casting? 423 vdso_data->ts_end = tod_steering_end; 424 vdso_data->tb_update_count++; 425 /* Update LPAR offset. */ 426 if (ptff_query(PTFF_QTO) && ptff(&qto, sizeof(qto), PTFF_QTO) == 0) 427 lpar_offset = qto.tod_epoch_difference; 428 /* Call the TOD clock change notifier. */ 429 atomic_notifier_call_chain(&s390_epoch_delta_notifier, 0, &delta); 430 } regards, dan carpenter -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-s390" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html