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Date:   Fri, 7 Sep 2018 15:58:17 +0200
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To:     Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@c-s.fr>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf: enum overflow in uapi/linux/perf_event.h
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On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 01:50:18PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> 
> 
> On 09/07/2018 01:42 PM, Peter Zijlstra wrote:
> > On Fri, Sep 07, 2018 at 01:27:19PM +0000, Christophe Leroy wrote:
> > > On PPC32, enums are 32 bits, so __PERF_SAMPLE_CALLCHAIN_EARLY is
> > > out of scope. The following sparse warning is encountered:
> > > 
> > >    CHECK   arch/powerpc/kernel/process.c
> > > ./include/uapi/linux/perf_event.h:147:56: warning: cast truncates bits from constant value (8000000000000000 becomes 0)
> > 
> > Urgh... what compiler is that? I've not seen anything like that from the
> > build bots.
> > 
> 
> [root@pc16082vm linux-powerpc]# sparse --version
> 0.5.2
> 
> [root@pc16082vm linux-powerpc]# ppc-linux-gcc --version
> ppc-linux-gcc (GCC) 5.4.0

Ah, that's a sparse warning. But does your GCC agree? The thing is,
sparse uses the C enum spec, but I suspect GCC uses the C++ enum spec
and it all works fine.