[PATCH] m68k: Implement ndelay() as an inline function to force type checking/casting

[Geert Uytterhoeven]

Hi Boris,

On Sun, May 13, 2018 at 4:02 PM, Boris Brezillon
<boris.brezillon at bootlin.com> wrote:
> ndelay() is supposed to take an unsigned long, but if you define
> ndelay() as a macro and the caller pass an unsigned long long instead
> of an unsigned long, the unsigned long long to unsigned long cast is
> not done and we end up with an "undefined reference to `__udivdi3'"
> error at link time.
>
> Fix that by making ndelay() an inline function and then defining dummy
> ndelay() macro that redirects to the ndelay() function (it's how most
> archs do to implement ndelay()).
>
> Fixes: c8ee038bd148 ("m68k: Implement ndelay() based on the existing udelay() logic")
> Signed-off-by: Boris Brezillon <boris.brezillon at bootlin.com>
> ---
> Hello Geert,
>
> This patch is fixing the bug reported by kbuild test robot here [1].
> I could have patched the PSEC_TO_NSEC() macro to cast the result of
> the division on a u32, but I thought making m68k consistent with what
> other archs do would be preferable.
>
> Let me know if don't like the solution, and I'll patch the ndelay()
> caller instead.

Thanks for your patch!

With the comment a few lines above removed:

    - * This is a macro so that the const version can factor out the first
    - * multiply and shift.

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert at linux-m68k.org>

>
> Regards,
>
> Boris
>
> [1]https://lkml.org/lkml/2018/5/13/72
> ---
>  arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h | 9 ++++++++-
>  1 file changed, 8 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h b/arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h
> index 7f474121e4ca..66ba159002a3 100644
> --- a/arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h
> +++ b/arch/m68k/include/asm/delay.h
> @@ -115,6 +115,13 @@ static inline void __udelay(unsigned long usecs)
>   */
>  #define        HZSCALE         (268435456 / (1000000 / HZ))
>
> -#define ndelay(n) __delay(DIV_ROUND_UP((n) * ((((HZSCALE) >> 11) * (loops_per_jiffy >> 11)) >> 6), 1000))
> +static inline void ndelay(unsigned long nsec)
> +{
> +       __delay(DIV_ROUND_UP(nsec *
> +                            ((((HZSCALE) >> 11) *
> +                              (loops_per_jiffy >> 11)) >> 6),
> +                            1000));
> +}
> +#define ndelay(n) ndelay(n)
>
>  #endif /* defined(_M68K_DELAY_H) */

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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