Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755883Ab2KMWOx (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:14:53 -0500 Received: from nm16-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com ([66.94.236.19]:44968 "EHLO nm16-vm0.access.bullet.mail.mud.yahoo.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754870Ab2KMWOD (ORCPT ); Tue, 13 Nov 2012 17:14:03 -0500 X-Yahoo-Newman-Id: 174480.28409.bm@smtp115.sbc.mail.ne1.yahoo.com X-Yahoo-Newman-Property: ymail-3 X-YMail-OSG: t2uOVDgVM1ldlFQUl7UIpG9DVzd7yqvi6Wm1Y5VYIr2Z.0J uZ47T0G_zH99uIE4ddOR_DSgqGrmbsfhUmFvbgWoGK1bTj3EYnRjwwtTlwJC AZpWbOTTfTwyUPMLfAlphl3sdXBmEjYLI0mKiORW5wI1NG9UEjerkBFF0ZKc c0117jhAtOVQmWaiNkJmeTGGUSNdx2qrscijnzI1Cbv4C2D9y6kePAC.JjaW ii15wuZ22300SfhwIyXScq1Xz196OzxR6sc1X8fv3k8Pa1q8GFIhIk7Ke.jE osWot2KscAMZrffRuxj_pmGg3g9bfZVey3NTu4hSQYa.7TW3wPOH_L7dXN4E rY1altHPPv9RzOWTazMbP2Saz_gIrkqZfzQOQhAPLuLXIR4fEaRajwbXhbhU uh25Dxq88Cb20ZNplZAuI3gjH7.k.aFSYY8wnPJ4H7FlwLSIt_zNblTZiXtB 3FWHKDwDFjPexki4NsykH3Ob7hUKM X-Yahoo-SMTP: xXkkXk6swBBAi.5wfkIWFW3ugxbrqyhyk_b4Z25Sfu.XGQ-- From: danielfsantos@att.net To: LKML , Andi Kleen , Andrea Arcangeli , Andrew Morton , Borislav Petkov , Christopher Li , Daniel Santos , David Daney , David Howells , Joe Perches , Josh Triplett , Konstantin Khlebnikov , linux-sparse@vger.kernel.org, Michel Lespinasse , Paul Gortmaker , Pavel Pisa , Peter Zijlstra , Steven Rostedt Subject: [PATCH v5 8/9] compiler.h, bug.h: Prevent double error messages with BUILD_BUG{,_ON} Date: Tue, 13 Nov 2012 16:13:40 -0600 Message-Id: <1352844821-18952-8-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> X-Mailer: git-send-email 1.7.3.4 In-Reply-To: <1352844568-18826-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> References: <1352844568-18826-1-git-send-email-daniel.santos@pobox.com> Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2951 Lines: 69 Prior to the introduction of __attribute__((error("msg"))) in gcc 4.3, creating compile-time errors required a little trickery. BUILD_BUG{,_ON} uses this attribute when available to generate compile-time errors, but also uses the negative-sized array trick for older compilers, resulting in two error messages in some cases. The reason it's "some" cases is that as of gcc 4.4, the negative-sized array will not create an error in some situations, like inline functions. This patch replaces the negative-sized array code with the new __compiletime_error_fallback() macro which expands to the same thing unless the the error attribute is available, in which case it expands to do{}while(0), resulting in exactly one compile-time error on all versions of gcc. Note that we are not changing the negative-sized array code for the unoptimized version of BUILD_BUG_ON, since it has the potential to catch problems that would be disabled in later versions of gcc were __compiletime_error_fallback used. The reason is that that an unoptimized build can't always remove calls to an error-attributed function call (like we are using) that should effectively become dead code if it were optimized. However, using a negative-sized array with a similar value will not result in an false-positive (error). The only caveat being that it will also fail to catch valid conditions, which we should be expecting in an unoptimized build anyway. Signed-off-by: Daniel Santos --- include/linux/bug.h | 2 +- include/linux/compiler.h | 5 +++++ 2 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) diff --git a/include/linux/bug.h b/include/linux/bug.h index dd4f506..125e744 100644 --- a/include/linux/bug.h +++ b/include/linux/bug.h @@ -66,7 +66,7 @@ struct pt_regs; __compiletime_error("BUILD_BUG_ON failed"); \ if (__cond) \ __build_bug_on_failed(); \ - ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2*!!(__cond)])); \ + __compiletime_error_fallback(__cond); \ } while(0) #endif diff --git a/include/linux/compiler.h b/include/linux/compiler.h index cbf6d9d..8e5b9d5 100644 --- a/include/linux/compiler.h +++ b/include/linux/compiler.h @@ -298,7 +298,12 @@ void ftrace_likely_update(struct ftrace_branch_data *f, int val, int expect); #endif #ifndef __compiletime_error # define __compiletime_error(message) +# define __compiletime_error_fallback(condition) \ + do { ((void)sizeof(char[1 - 2*!!(condition)])); } while (0) +#else +# define __compiletime_error_fallback(condition) do { } while (0) #endif + /* * Prevent the compiler from merging or refetching accesses. The compiler * is also forbidden from reordering successive instances of ACCESS_ONCE(), -- 1.7.3.4 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/