[PATCH v2] NVMe: silence GCC warning on 32 bit
Keith Busch
keith.busch at intel.com
Wed Mar 5 10:09:34 EST 2014
Looks good to me. This won't apply in linux-nvme yet and it may be a
little while before it does, so this might be considered to go upstream
through a different tree if you want this in sooner.
On Tue, 4 Mar 2014, Paul Bolle wrote:
> Building nvme-core.o on 32 bit x86 triggers a rather impressive set of
> GCC warnings:
> In file included from drivers/block/nvme-core.c:20:0:
> drivers/block/nvme-core.c: In function 'nvme_submit_bio_queue':
> include/linux/bio.h:154:55: warning: 'bvprv.bv_offset' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> #define bvec_to_phys(bv) (page_to_phys((bv)->bv_page) + (unsigned long) (bv)->bv_offset)
> ^
> drivers/block/nvme-core.c:498:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_offset' was declared here
> struct bio_vec bvec, bvprv;
> ^
> In file included from drivers/block/nvme-core.c:20:0:
> include/linux/bio.h:154:55: warning: 'bvprv.bv_len' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> #define bvec_to_phys(bv) (page_to_phys((bv)->bv_page) + (unsigned long) (bv)->bv_offset)
> ^
> drivers/block/nvme-core.c:498:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_len' was declared here
> struct bio_vec bvec, bvprv;
> ^
> In file included from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/page.h:70:0,
> from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/processor.h:17,
> from [...]/arch/x86/include/asm/atomic.h:6,
> from include/linux/atomic.h:4,
> from include/linux/mutex.h:18,
> from include/linux/kernfs.h:13,
> from include/linux/sysfs.h:15,
> from include/linux/kobject.h:21,
> from include/linux/pci.h:28,
> from include/linux/nvme.h:23,
> from drivers/block/nvme-core.c:19:
> include/asm-generic/memory_model.h:31:53: warning: 'bvprv.bv_page' may be used uninitialized in this function [-Wmaybe-uninitialized]
> #define __page_to_pfn(page) ((unsigned long)((page) - mem_map) + \
> ^
> drivers/block/nvme-core.c:498:23: note: 'bvprv.bv_page' was declared here
> struct bio_vec bvec, bvprv;
> ^
>
> These are false positives. Apparently GCC can't determine that bvprv
> will only be used if first is false and has, therefore, been
> initialized. It turned out hard to reorganize the code to help GCC
> understand the flow of this code. So take the easy way out and
> initialize bvprv to { NULL }.
>
> And, since we're touching this code, make first a bool.
>
> Signed-off-by: Paul Bolle <pebolle at tiscali.nl>
> ---
> v2: redone, as required by Keith's review. Note that initializing bvprv
> to { NULL } is already done twice in block/blk-merge.c, which inspired
> me to take the easy way out here.
>
> Also note that it's actually not clear to me why these warnings only
> trigger on 32 bit. I guess there's some int/long conversion lurking
> somewhere. I haven't found it.
>
> bvprv? Would that mean bio_vec private? But it looks like some temporary
> variable, so something like tmp may make more sense. Anyhow, still
> compile tested only (on 32 and 64 bit x86).
bvprv == bio_vec previous
> drivers/block/nvme-core.c | 6 +++---
> 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
> index 51824d1..60f98be 100644
> --- a/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
> +++ b/drivers/block/nvme-core.c
> @@ -495,11 +495,11 @@ static int nvme_split_and_submit(struct bio *bio, struct nvme_queue *nvmeq,
> static int nvme_map_bio(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, struct nvme_iod *iod,
> struct bio *bio, enum dma_data_direction dma_dir, int psegs)
> {
> - struct bio_vec bvec, bvprv;
> + struct bio_vec bvec, bvprv = { NULL };
> struct bvec_iter iter;
> struct scatterlist *sg = NULL;
> int length = 0, nsegs = 0, split_len = bio->bi_iter.bi_size;
> - int first = 1;
> + bool first = true;
>
> if (nvmeq->dev->stripe_size)
> split_len = nvmeq->dev->stripe_size -
> @@ -525,7 +525,7 @@ static int nvme_map_bio(struct nvme_queue *nvmeq, struct nvme_iod *iod,
> return nvme_split_and_submit(bio, nvmeq, split_len);
> length += bvec.bv_len;
> bvprv = bvec;
> - first = 0;
> + first = false;
> }
> iod->nents = nsegs;
> sg_mark_end(sg);
> --
> 1.8.5.3
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