This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled minmax: avoid overly complex min()/max() macro arguments in xen to the 6.6-stable tree which can be found at: http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary The filename of the patch is: minmax-avoid-overly-complex-min-max-macro-arguments-.patch and it can be found in the queue-6.6 subdirectory. If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it. commit f7187380dbedf64ed64939d77f9159784317de9a Author: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Date: Fri Jul 26 15:09:07 2024 -0700 minmax: avoid overly complex min()/max() macro arguments in xen [ Upstream commit e8432ac802a028eaee6b1e86383d7cd8e9fb8431 ] We have some very fancy min/max macros that have tons of sanity checking to warn about mixed signedness etc. This is all things that a sane compiler should warn about, but there are no sane compiler interfaces for this, and '-Wsign-compare' is broken [1] and not useful. So then we compensate (some would say over-compensate) by doing the checks manually with some truly horrid macro games. And no, we can't just use __builtin_types_compatible_p(), because the whole question of "does it make sense to compare these two values" is a lot more complicated than that. For example, it makes a ton of sense to compare unsigned values with simple constants like "5", even if that is indeed a signed type. So we have these very strange macros to try to make sensible type checking decisions on the arguments to 'min()' and 'max()'. But that can cause enormous code expansion if the min()/max() macros are used with complicated expressions, and particularly if you nest these things so that you get the first big expansion then expanded again. The xen setup.c file ended up ballooning to over 50MB of preprocessed noise that takes 15s to compile (obviously depending on the build host), largely due to one single line. So let's split that one single line to just be simpler. I think it ends up being more legible to humans too at the same time. Now that single file compiles in under a second. Reported-and-reviewed-by: Lorenzo Stoakes <lorenzo.stoakes@xxxxxxxxxx> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/c83c17bb-be75-4c67-979d-54eee38774c6@lucifer.local/ Link: https://staticthinking.wordpress.com/2023/07/25/wsign-compare-is-garbage/ [1] Cc: David Laight <David.Laight@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Stable-dep-of: be35d91c8880 ("xen: tolerate ACPI NVS memory overlapping with Xen allocated memory") Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx> diff --git a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c index d44d6d8b33195..d2073df5c5624 100644 --- a/arch/x86/xen/setup.c +++ b/arch/x86/xen/setup.c @@ -691,6 +691,7 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void) struct xen_memory_map memmap; unsigned long max_pages; unsigned long extra_pages = 0; + unsigned long maxmem_pages; int i; int op; @@ -762,8 +763,8 @@ char * __init xen_memory_setup(void) * Make sure we have no memory above max_pages, as this area * isn't handled by the p2m management. */ - extra_pages = min3(EXTRA_MEM_RATIO * min(max_pfn, PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM)), - extra_pages, max_pages - max_pfn); + maxmem_pages = EXTRA_MEM_RATIO * min(max_pfn, PFN_DOWN(MAXMEM)); + extra_pages = min3(maxmem_pages, extra_pages, max_pages - max_pfn); i = 0; addr = xen_e820_table.entries[0].addr; size = xen_e820_table.entries[0].size;