Prototype of find_first_zero_bit in bitops.h
Mason
slash.tmp at free.fr
Wed Mar 29 04:54:51 PDT 2017
Hello Russell,
Just wanted to run something by you.
In some driver code, I was passing the address of a u32 to
find_first_zero_bit() and the maintainer smacked me, pointing
out that find_first_zero_bit only accepted (unsigned long *)
Would it make sense to change the prototype of
_find_first_zero_bit_le()
so that my mistake would be caught by the compiler like this:
CC drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.o
In file included from ./include/linux/bitops.h:36:0,
from ./include/linux/kernel.h:10,
from ./include/linux/list.h:8,
from ./include/linux/smp.h:11,
from ./include/linux/irq.h:12,
from ./include/linux/irqchip/chained_irq.h:21,
from drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c:1:
drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c: In function 'tango_irq_domain_alloc':
drivers/pci/host/pcie-tango.c:122:28: error:
passing argument 1 of '_find_first_zero_bit_le' from incompatible pointer type [-Werror=incompatible-pointer-types]
pos = find_first_zero_bit(&mask, 32);
^
./arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h:199:59: note: in definition of macro 'find_first_zero_bit'
#define find_first_zero_bit(p,sz) _find_first_zero_bit_le(p,sz)
^
./arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h:162:12: note: expected 'const long unsigned int *' but argument is of type 'u32 * {aka unsigned int *}'
extern int _find_first_zero_bit_le(const unsigned long * p, unsigned size);
^
Proposed trivial patch:
--- a/arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h
+++ b/arch/arm/include/asm/bitops.h
@@ -159,8 +159,8 @@ static inline void ____atomic_change_bit(unsigned int bit, volatile unsigned lon
/*
* Little endian assembly bitops. nr = 0 -> byte 0 bit 0.
*/
-extern int _find_first_zero_bit_le(const void * p, unsigned size);
-extern int _find_next_zero_bit_le(const void * p, int size, int offset);
+extern int _find_first_zero_bit_le(const unsigned long *p, unsigned size);
+extern int _find_next_zero_bit_le(const unsigned long *p, int size, int offset);
extern int _find_first_bit_le(const unsigned long *p, unsigned size);
extern int _find_next_bit_le(const unsigned long *p, int size, int offset);
--
Regards.
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