drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1278:48: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)

Arnd Bergmann arnd at arndb.de
Sun Mar 3 15:51:28 EST 2013


On Sunday 03 March 2013, kbuild test robot wrote:
> >> drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1278:48: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
>    drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1278:48:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *p
>    drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1278:48:    got unsigned int *
> >> drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1279:48: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
>    drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1279:48:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *p
>    drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1279:48:    got unsigned int *
> >> drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1280:48: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types)
>    drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1280:48:    expected restricted __be32 const [usertype] *p
>    drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c:1280:48:    got unsigned int *
> 

Cool, thanks for the notification! That is a real bug, the variables
are already endian swapped at this point.

Fortunately, nothing is using that code at this moment, so we can fix
this with no hurry.

Vinod, could you apply this patch?

	Arnd

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Subject: [PATCH] dmaengine: dw_dma: fix endianess for DT xlate function

As reported by Wu Fengguang's build robot tracking sparse warnings, the
dma_spec arguments in the dw_dma_xlate are already byte swapped on
littl-endian platforms and must not get swapped again. This code is
currently not used anywhere, but will be used in Linux 3.10 when the
ARM SPEAr platform starts using the generic DMA DT binding.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

diff --git a/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c b/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
index c599558..eb81ec9 100644
--- a/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
+++ b/drivers/dma/dw_dmac.c
@@ -1276,9 +1276,9 @@ static struct dma_chan *dw_dma_xlate(struct of_phandle_args *dma_spec,
 	if (dma_spec->args_count != 3)
 		return NULL;
 
-	fargs.req = be32_to_cpup(dma_spec->args+0);
-	fargs.src = be32_to_cpup(dma_spec->args+1);
-	fargs.dst = be32_to_cpup(dma_spec->args+2);
+	fargs.req = dma_spec->args[0];
+	fargs.src = dma_spec->args[1];
+	fargs.dst = dma_spec->args[2];
 
 	if (WARN_ON(fargs.req >= DW_DMA_MAX_NR_REQUESTS ||
 		    fargs.src >= dw->nr_masters ||



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