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2021-05-23linux/bits.h: fix compilation error with GENMASKRikard Falkeborn1-1/+1
GENMASK() has an input check which uses __builtin_choose_expr() to enable a compile time sanity check of its inputs if they are known at compile time. However, it turns out that __builtin_constant_p() does not always return a compile time constant [0]. It was thought this problem was fixed with gcc 4.9 [1], but apparently this is not the case [2]. Switch to use __is_constexpr() instead which always returns a compile time constant, regardless of its inputs. Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/42b4342b-aefc-a16a-0d43-9f9c0d63ba7a@rasmusvillemoes.dk [0] Link: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19449 [1] Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1ac7bbc2-45d9-26ed-0b33-bf382b8d858b@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp [2] Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20210511203716.117010-1-rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com> Reported-by: Tetsuo Handa <penguin-kernel@I-love.SAKURA.ne.jp> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Reviewed-by: Andy Shevchenko <andy.shevchenko@gmail.com> Cc: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Cc: Yury Norov <yury.norov@gmail.com> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-07-08Raise gcc version requirement to 4.9Linus Torvalds1-2/+1
I realize that we fairly recently raised it to 4.8, but the fact is, 4.9 is a much better minimum version to target. We have a number of workarounds for actual bugs in pre-4.9 gcc versions (including things like internal compiler errors on ARM), but we also have some syntactic workarounds for lacking features. In particular, raising the minimum to 4.9 means that we can now just assume _Generic() exists, which is likely the much better replacement for a lot of very convoluted built-time magic with conditionals on sizeof and/or __builtin_choose_expr() with same_type() etc. Using _Generic also means that you will need to have a very recent version of 'sparse', but thats easy to build yourself, and much less of a hassle than some old gcc version can be. The latest (in a long string) of reasons for minimum compiler version upgrades was commit 5435f73d5c4a ("efi/x86: Fix build with gcc 4"). Ard points out that RHEL 7 uses gcc-4.8, but the people who stay back on old RHEL versions persumably also don't build their own kernels anyway. And maybe they should cross-built or just have a little side affair with a newer compiler? Acked-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb@kernel.org> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-04-07linux/bits.h: add compile time sanity check of GENMASK inputsRikard Falkeborn1-2/+20
GENMASK() and GENMASK_ULL() are supposed to be called with the high bit as the first argument and the low bit as the second argument. Mixing them will return a mask with zero bits set. Recent commits show getting this wrong is not uncommon, see e.g. commit aa4c0c9091b0 ("net: stmmac: Fix misuses of GENMASK macro") and commit 9bdd7bb3a844 ("clocksource/drivers/npcm: Fix misuse of GENMASK macro"). To prevent such mistakes from appearing again, add compile time sanity checking to the arguments of GENMASK() and GENMASK_ULL(). If both arguments are known at compile time, and the low bit is higher than the high bit, break the build to detect the mistake immediately. Since GENMASK() is used in declarations, BUILD_BUG_ON_ZERO() must be used instead of BUILD_BUG_ON(). __builtin_constant_p does not evaluate is argument, it only checks if it is a constant or not at compile time, and __builtin_choose_expr does not evaluate the expression that is not chosen. Therefore, GENMASK(x++, 0) does only evaluate x++ once. Commit 95b980d62d52 ("linux/bits.h: make BIT(), GENMASK(), and friends available in assembly") made the macros in linux/bits.h available in assembly. Since BUILD_BUG_OR_ZERO() is not asm compatible, disable the checks if the file is included in an asm file. Due to bugs in GCC versions before 4.9 [0], disable the check if building with a too old GCC compiler. [0]: https://gcc.gnu.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=19449 Signed-off-by: Rikard Falkeborn <rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Reviewed-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> Cc: Haren Myneni <haren@us.ibm.com> Cc: Joe Perches <joe@perches.com> Cc: Johannes Berg <johannes@sipsolutions.net> Cc: lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200308193954.2372399-1-rikard.falkeborn@gmail.com Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2020-03-21linux/bits.h: Extract common header for vDSOVincenzo Frascino1-1/+1
The vDSO library should only include the necessary headers required for a userspace library (UAPI and a minimal set of kernel headers). To make this possible it is necessary to isolate from the kernel headers the common parts that are strictly necessary to build the library. Split bits.h into linux and common headers to make the latter suitable for inclusion in the vDSO library. Signed-off-by: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Link: https://lkml.kernel.org/r/20200320145351.32292-3-vincenzo.frascino@arm.com
2019-07-17linux/bits.h: make BIT(), GENMASK(), and friends available in assemblyMasahiro Yamada1-7/+10
BIT(), GENMASK(), etc. are useful to define register bits of hardware. However, low-level code is often written in assembly, where they are not available due to the hard-coded 1UL, 0UL. In fact, in-kernel headers such as arch/arm64/include/asm/sysreg.h use _BITUL() instead of BIT() so that the register bit macros are available in assembly. Using macros in include/uapi/linux/const.h have two reasons: [1] For use in uapi headers We should use underscore-prefixed variants for user-space. [2] For use in assembly code Since _BITUL() uses UL(1) instead of 1UL, it can be used as an alternative of BIT(). For [2], it is pretty easy to change BIT() etc. for use in assembly. This allows to replace _BUTUL() in kernel-space headers with BIT(). Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20190609153941.17249-1-yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@socionext.com> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com> Cc: Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@de.ibm.com> Cc: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> Cc: Vasily Gorbik <gor@linux.ibm.com> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@synopsys.com> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2018-06-21locking/atomics, asm-generic: Move some macros from <linux/bitops.h> to a ↵Will Deacon1-0/+26
new <linux/bits.h> file In preparation for implementing the asm-generic atomic bitops in terms of atomic_long_*(), we need to prevent <asm/atomic.h> implementations from pulling in <linux/bitops.h>. A common reason for this include is for the BITS_PER_BYTE definition, so move this and some other BIT() and masking macros into a new header file, <linux/bits.h>. Signed-off-by: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com> Acked-by: Peter Zijlstra (Intel) <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org Cc: yamada.masahiro@socionext.com Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/1529412794-17720-4-git-send-email-will.deacon@arm.com Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>