Subject: Re: [PATCH V6 2/2] mm/debug: Add tests validating architecture page table helpers

From: Qian Cai <[email-masked]>
Date: Tue, 15 Oct 2019 14:09:42 -0400

On Tue, 2019-10-15 at 14:51 +0530, Anshuman Khandual wrote:
> +static unsigned long __init get_random_vaddr(void)
> +{
> +	unsigned long random_vaddr, random_pages, total_user_pages;
> +
> +	total_user_pages = (TASK_SIZE - FIRST_USER_ADDRESS) / PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> +	random_pages = get_random_long() % total_user_pages;
> +	random_vaddr = FIRST_USER_ADDRESS + random_pages * PAGE_SIZE;
> +
> +	WARN_ON(random_vaddr > TASK_SIZE);
> +	WARN_ON(random_vaddr < FIRST_USER_ADDRESS);

It would be nice if this patch does not introduce a new W=1 GCC warning here on
x86 because FIRST_USER_ADDRESS is 0, and GCC think the code is dumb because
"random_vaddr" is unsigned,

In file included from ./arch/x86/include/asm/bug.h:83,
                 from ./include/linux/bug.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/mmdebug.h:5,
                 from ./include/linux/gfp.h:5,
                 from mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:13:
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c: In function ‘get_random_vaddr’:
mm/debug_vm_pgtable.c:359:23: warning: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is
always false [-Wtype-limits]
  WARN_ON(random_vaddr < FIRST_USER_ADDRESS);
                       ^
./include/asm-generic/bug.h:113:25: note: in definition of macro ‘WARN_ON’
  int __ret_warn_on = !!(condition);    \
                         ^~~~~~~~~

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