Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756700Ab1E2AjC (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2011 20:39:02 -0400 Received: from mx.treblig.org ([80.68.94.177]:39238 "EHLO mx.treblig.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754463Ab1E2Ai7 (ORCPT ); Sat, 28 May 2011 20:38:59 -0400 Date: Sun, 29 May 2011 01:38:57 +0100 From: "Dr. David Alan Gilbert" To: kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: sparse build breakage with 903c0c7cdc21f2ccb7562a7bbc70289c0c2b16ad Message-ID: <20110529003857.GA9898@gallifrey> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline X-Chocolate: 70 percent or better cocoa solids preferably X-Operating-System: Linux/2.6.32.27-kvm-i386-20110114 (i686) X-Uptime: 01:18:08 up 100 days, 1:50, 1 user, load average: 0.00, 0.00, 0.00 User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.18 (2008-05-17) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 3050 Lines: 69 Hi Kosaki, I'm getting a problem when running the current (5dbe0af47f8a8f968bac2991c3ec974c6e3eaabc) kernel tree through sparse, and I think it's down to an interaction between your commit 903c0c7cdc21f2ccb7562a7bbc70289c0c2b16ad sparse: define dummy BUILD_BUG_ON definition for sparse and the __module_param_call code in moduleparam.h The error is: init/main.c:643:1: error: Syntax error in unary expression core_param(initcall_debug, initcall_debug, bool, 0644); this calls __module_param_call which is defined as: #define __module_param_call(prefix, name, ops, arg, isbool, perm) \ /* Default value instead of permissions? */ \ static int __param_perm_check_##name __attribute__((unused)) = \ BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO((perm) < 0 || (perm) > 0777 || ((perm) & 2)) \ + BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(sizeof(""prefix) > MAX_PARAM_PREFIX_LEN); \ static const char __param_str_##name[] = prefix #name; \ static struct kernel_param __moduleparam_const __param_##name \ __used \ __attribute__ ((unused,__section__ ("__param"),aligned(sizeof(void *)))) \ = { __param_str_##name, ops, perm, isbool ? KPARAM_ISBOOL : 0, \ { arg } } which ends up with a postprocessed line of: static inline void __check_initcall_debug(void) {; }; static int __param_perm_check_initcall_debug __attribute__((unused)) = +; static const char __param_str_initcall_debug[] = "" "initcall_debug"; static struct kernel_param const __param_initcall_debug __attribute__((__used__)) __attribute__ ((unused,__section__ ("__param"),aligned(sizeof(void *)))) = { __param_str_initcall_debug, ¶m_ops_bool, 0644, __builtin_types_compatible_p(typeof(initcall_debug), typeof(bool)) ? 2 : 0, { &initcall_debug } }; Note the '+;' being assigned to __param_perm_check_initcall_debug So I think your dummy BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO's needs to have a value: The following diff seems to fix it, but I've not let a fuller sparse run complete yet: diff --git a/include/linux/kernel.h b/include/linux/kernel.h index fb0e732..953352a 100644 --- a/include/linux/kernel.h +++ b/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -671,8 +671,8 @@ struct sysinfo { #ifdef __CHECKER__ #define BUILD_BUG_ON_NOT_POWER_OF_2(n) -#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) -#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO(e) (0) +#define BUILD_BUG_ON_NULL(e) ((void*)0) #define BUILD_BUG_ON(condition) #else /* __CHECKER__ */ -- -----Open up your eyes, open up your mind, open up your code ------- / Dr. David Alan Gilbert | Running GNU/Linux | Happy \ \ gro.gilbert @ treblig.org | | In Hex / \ _________________________|_____ http://www.treblig.org |_______/ -- 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/