[PATCH] arm64: pass machine size to sparse

Luc Van Oostenryck luc.vanoostenryck at gmail.com
Tue Jun 20 05:24:43 PDT 2017


When using sparse on the arm64 tree we get many thousands of
warnings like 'constant ... is so big it is unsigned long long'
or 'shift too big (32) for type unsigned long'. This happens
because by default sparse considers the machine as 32bit and
defines the size of the types accordingly.

Fix this by passing the '-m64' flag to sparse so that
sparse can correctly define longs as being 64bit.

CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>
CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon at arm.com>
CC: linux-arm-kernel at lists.infradead.org
Signed-off-by: Luc Van Oostenryck <luc.vanoostenryck at gmail.com>
---
 arch/arm64/Makefile | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm64/Makefile b/arch/arm64/Makefile
index f839ecd91..15d6c1476 100644
--- a/arch/arm64/Makefile
+++ b/arch/arm64/Makefile
@@ -62,7 +62,7 @@ LD		+= -EL
 UTS_MACHINE	:= aarch64
 endif
 
-CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__aarch64__
+CHECKFLAGS	+= -D__aarch64__ -m64
 
 ifeq ($(CONFIG_ARM64_MODULE_CMODEL_LARGE), y)
 KBUILD_CFLAGS_MODULE	+= -mcmodel=large
-- 
2.13.0




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