Message ID | 20231011053711.93427-1-bgray@linux.ibm.com (mailing list archive) |
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Headers | show |
Series | Miscellaneous Sparse fixes | expand |
On Wed, 11 Oct 2023 16:36:59 +1100, Benjamin Gray wrote: > There are many Sparse warnings in the kernel, including the powerpc > directory. This series provides fixes for some low-hanging fruit found > when trying to triage the warnings earlier this year. It addresses about > 100 warnings (many have the same root cause). > > I know there's concerns about making it harder to backport things. In > general, as someone who was not around during the development of these > features, I think that it is useful make the annotations as correct as > possible. But it's no fuss if some/all of the patches are nacked for this > reason. I just figured some of it might be useful instead of continuing to > sit on it indefinitely. > > [...] Patch 1, and 3-12 applied to powerpc/next. [01/12] powerpc/xive: Fix endian conversion size https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/ff7a60ab1e065257a0e467c13b519f4debcd7fcf [03/12] powerpc: Explicitly reverse bytes when checking for byte reversal https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/340a60e3725b9a229eaf03a9b3f8538f22f6ac16 [04/12] powerpc: Use NULL instead of 0 for null pointers https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/ddfb7d9db843fd4fbdff81fb8a8743f865c3dd96 [05/12] powerpc: Remove extern from function implementations https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/419d5d112c2e1e78beda9c3299f71c35141d8dba [06/12] powerpc: Annotate endianness of various variables and functions https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2b4a6cc9a1a7cf6958c8b11f94e61c8e81b60b88 [07/12] powerpc/kvm: Force cast endianness of KVM shared regs https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b7bce570430e42229fb63f775fcbb10f38b83c71 [08/12] powerpc/opal: Annotate out param endianness https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8577dd00a6ba335bc359313599d6100522a1931c [09/12] powerpc/uaccess: Cast away __user annotation after verification https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/c6519c6df0722e432f330afbc7c00d16d5be5c58 [10/12] powerpc: Cast away __iomem in low level IO routines https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/2c4ce3e65b1a543123ffcec4b021ad6ebd4e4e4e [11/12] powerpc/eeh: Remove unnecessary cast https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/82f635243f209a85d3deb9f64439c3ea84cd4ecb [12/12] powerpc/fadump: Annotate endianness cast with __force https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/b574b817cc7bfcc87bbc92b4b19525442401ae5e cheers