Hi Arnd, On 10/17/2016 05:35 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > A recent bugfix introduced a harmless warning in the lpfc driver: > > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c: In function 'lpfc_write_firmware': > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_logmsg.h:56:45: error: format '%ld' expects argument of type 'long int', but argument 9 has type 'size_t {aka const unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=] > > 'size_t' is always the same width as 'long' in the kernel, but the compiler > doesn't know that. The %z modifier is what the standard expects to be > used here, and this shuts up the warning. > > Fixes: 679053c651fb ("scsi: lpfc: Fix fw download on SLI-4 FC adapters") > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de> > --- > drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c > index 7be9b8a7bb19..4776fd85514f 100644 > --- a/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c > +++ b/drivers/scsi/lpfc/lpfc_init.c > @@ -10332,7 +10332,7 @@ lpfc_write_firmware(const struct firmware *fw, void *context) > ftype != LPFC_FILE_TYPE_GROUP || fsize != fw->size) { > lpfc_printf_log(phba, KERN_ERR, LOG_INIT, > "3022 Invalid FW image found. " > - "Magic:%x Type:%x ID:%x Size %d %ld\n", > + "Magic:%x Type:%x ID:%x Size %d %zd\n", > magic_number, ftype, fid, fsize, fw->size); > rc = -EINVAL; > goto release_out; > I'm trying to use about to be released ARC gcc 6.x with current kernels and see a flood of warnings due to these legit fixes - i.e.g arc gcc 6.2 complains when it sees -zx formats. CC mm/percpu.o ../mm/percpu.c: In function ?pcpu_alloc?: ../mm/percpu.c:890:14: warning: format ?%zu? expects argument of type ?size_t?, but argument 4 has type ?unsigned int? [-Wformat=] WARN(true, "illegal size (%zu) or align (%zu) for percpu allocation\n", I'm not sure what is going on since the data type is size_t alright - although from posix_types.h is typedef unsigned int __kernel_size_t; typedef __kernel_size_t size_t; And this seems to be same for ARC as well as ARM. I tried ARM gcc 6.1 @ https://snapshots.linaro.org/components/toolchain/binaries/6.1-2016.08-rc1/arm-linux-gnueabihf/ which doesn't seem to be complaining. With V=1, I checked the respective ARM and ARC toggles in play, but nothing related to this seems to be standing out. I know this is more of a question to our GNU folks, but was wondering if you had more insight into it - which you almost always do :-) Thx, -Vineet