[PATCH Trusty SRU 1/3] bitops: Fix signedness of compile-time hweight implementations

Tim Gardner tim.gardner at canonical.com
Thu Jun 12 19:24:00 UTC 2014


From: Paul Walmsley <pwalmsley at nvidia.com>

BugLink: http://bugs.launchpad.net/bugs/1321791

Enabling '-Wsign-compare' compiler warnings on code that includes
include/linux/bitops.h can generate the following warning:

  In file included from include/linux/kernel.h:10:0,
                    from <random filename>:48:
  include/linux/bitops.h: In function 'hweight_long':
  include/linux/bitops.h:77:26: error: signed and unsigned type in conditional expression [-Werror=sign-compare]

(converted to an error with -Werror)

This is due to the use of the logical negation operator '!' in the
__const_hweight8 macro in include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h.
The use of that operator here results in a signed value.

Fix by explicitly casting the __const_hweight8 macro expansion to
'unsigned int'.  While here, clean up several checkpatch.pl warnings.

Signed-off-by: Paul Walmsley <pwalmsley at nvidia.com>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa at zytor.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds at linux-foundation.org>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm at linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz at infradead.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/alpine.DEB.2.02.1312180459580.30198@tamien
Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo at kernel.org>
(cherry picked from commit c32fa99f0b4252633aa464e28d1cb925bd2a79df)
Signed-off-by: Tim Gardner <tim.gardner at canonical.com>
---
 include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h | 17 +++++++++--------
 1 file changed, 9 insertions(+), 8 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h b/include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h
index fa2a50b..0a7e066 100644
--- a/include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h
+++ b/include/asm-generic/bitops/const_hweight.h
@@ -5,14 +5,15 @@
  * Compile time versions of __arch_hweightN()
  */
 #define __const_hweight8(w)		\
-      (	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 0))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 1))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 2))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 3))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 4))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 5))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 6))) +	\
-	(!!((w) & (1ULL << 7)))	)
+	((unsigned int)			\
+	 ((!!((w) & (1ULL << 0))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 1))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 2))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 3))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 4))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 5))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 6))) +	\
+	  (!!((w) & (1ULL << 7)))))
 
 #define __const_hweight16(w) (__const_hweight8(w)  + __const_hweight8((w)  >> 8 ))
 #define __const_hweight32(w) (__const_hweight16(w) + __const_hweight16((w) >> 16))
-- 
1.9.1





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