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From: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
To: Neil Horman <nhorman@tuxdriver.com>
Cc: dev@dpdk.org
Subject: Re: [dpdk-dev] [PATCH] ixgbe: fix clang compile - remove truncation errors
Date: Mon, 1 Dec 2014 11:24:58 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20141201112458.GD4856@bricha3-MOBL3> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20141201111817.GA15135@hmsreliant.think-freely.org>

On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 06:18:17AM -0500, Neil Horman wrote:
> On Mon, Dec 01, 2014 at 10:09:38AM +0100, Olivier MATZ wrote:
> > Hi Bruce, Hi Neil,
> > 
> > On 11/30/2014 02:05 AM, Neil Horman wrote:
> > > On Fri, Nov 28, 2014 at 03:31:00PM +0000, Bruce Richardson wrote:
> > >> When compiling with clang, errors were being emitted due to truncation
> > >> of values when assigning to the tx_offload_mask bit fields.
> > >>
> > >> dpdk.org/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c:404:27: fatal error: implicit truncation from 'int' to bitfield changes value from -1 to 127 [-Wbitfield-constant-conversion]
> > >> 		    tx_offload_mask.l2_len = ~0;
> > >>
> > >> The fix proposed here is to define a static const value of the same type
> > >> with all fields set to 1s, and use that instead of constants for assigning to.
> > >>
> > >> Other options would be to explicitily define the suitable constants that
> > >> would not truncate for each individual field e.g. 0x7f for l2_len, 0x1FF
> > >> for l3_len, etc., but this solution here has the advantage that it works
> > >> without any changes to values if the field sizes are ever modified.
> > >>
> > >> Signed-off-by: Bruce Richardson <bruce.richardson@intel.com>
> > >> ---
> > >>  lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c | 29 +++++++++++++++--------------
> > >>  1 file changed, 15 insertions(+), 14 deletions(-)
> > >>
> > >> diff --git a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
> > >> index 8559ef6..4f71194 100644
> > >> --- a/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
> > >> +++ b/lib/librte_pmd_ixgbe/ixgbe_rxtx.c
> > >> @@ -367,6 +367,7 @@ ixgbe_set_xmit_ctx(struct igb_tx_queue* txq,
> > >>  		volatile struct ixgbe_adv_tx_context_desc *ctx_txd,
> > >>  		uint64_t ol_flags, union ixgbe_tx_offload tx_offload)
> > >>  {
> > >> +	static const union ixgbe_tx_offload offload_allones = { .data = ~0 };
> > > Do you want to make this a static data structure?  If you make it a macro like
> > > this:
> > > #define ALLONES {.data = ~0}
> > > Then you save the extra data space in the .data area (not that its that much),
> > > and you can define it in a header file and use it in multiple c files (if you
> > > need to)
> > 
> > I found that the following code works:
> > 
> > 	tx_offload_mask.l2_len |= ~0;
> > 
> > (note the '|=' instead of '=')
> > 
> How exactly does this work? does the or operator imply some level of type
> promotion that the assignment doesn't to avoid the truncation?
> Neil
> 

For any aithmetic, and presumably logical, operation on two values, any values
smaller than "int" are promoted to type int before the operation takes place. I
believe the exact rules for this are in the C specs e.g. C99.

/Bruce

> > I would avoid to create a macro. What do you think?
> > 
> > Regards,
> > Olivier
> > 

  reply	other threads:[~2014-12-01 11:25 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2014-11-28 15:31 Bruce Richardson
2014-11-30  1:05 ` Neil Horman
2014-12-01  9:09   ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-01  9:48     ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-01  9:59       ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-01 11:18     ` Neil Horman
2014-12-01 11:24       ` Bruce Richardson [this message]
2014-12-01 14:25         ` Neil Horman
2014-12-01 14:36           ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-01 15:18             ` Neil Horman
2014-12-01 15:24               ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-01 16:35                 ` Neil Horman
2014-12-01 16:44                   ` Bruce Richardson
2014-12-01 17:16                     ` Neil Horman
2014-12-01 21:55                       ` Olivier MATZ
2014-12-02 11:32                         ` Neil Horman

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