On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 10:54:26AM +0200, Philipp Klocke wrote:
Make sched_feat(x) return 1 or 0 instead of 2**x or 0 when sysctl_sched_features is constant, by changing the left shift of the mask-bit to a right shift of the bitmap. The behaviour of the code remains unchanged. We prove this by showing that the compiler can evaluate this shift during compile time, which results in generating the same machine code as before.
This patch is motivated by the clang warning Wconstant-logical-operand, issued when logically comparing a variable to a constant integer that is neither 1 nor 0. It happens for sched_feat(x) when sysctl_sched_features is constant, i.e., CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG is not set.
kernel/sched/fair.c:3927:14: warning: use of logical '&&' with constant operand [-Wconstant-logical-operand] if (initial && sched_feat(START_DEBIT)) ^ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ kernel/sched/fair.c:3927:14: note: use '&' for a bitwise operation if (initial && sched_feat(START_DEBIT)) ^~ & kernel/sched/fair.c:3927:14: note: remove constant to silence this warning if (initial && sched_feat(START_DEBIT)) ~^~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
This resolves the warning, leaves the code base largely as is.
Tested with gcc 7.3.1 and clang 6.0.0 on x86_64, comparing resulting binaries with diff. Applicable to all modern compilers and architectures
Signed-off-by: Philipp Klocke <Phil_K97@gmx.de> Suggested-by: Lukas Bulwahn <lukas.bulwahn@gmail.com> Reviewed-by: Nicholas Mc Guire <der.herr@hofr.at>
--- kernel/sched/sched.h | 4 ++++ 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)
diff --git a/kernel/sched/sched.h b/kernel/sched/sched.h index fb5fc458547f..d2aedee6ab0f 100644 --- a/kernel/sched/sched.h +++ b/kernel/sched/sched.h @@ -1305,7 +1305,11 @@ static const_debug __maybe_unused unsigned int sysctl_sched_features = 0; #undef SCHED_FEAT
+#ifdef CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG #define sched_feat(x) (sysctl_sched_features & (1UL << __SCHED_FEAT_##x)) +#else +#define sched_feat(x) ((sysctl_sched_features >> __SCHED_FEAT_##x) & 1UL) +#endif
The changed sched_feat(y) line is fine but I do not get/like the of the ifdef - keeping the change minimal is ok if there is a relevant impact but here there is no effective difference (you write the object code is the same for the !CONFIG_SCHED_DEBUG case) So I think the ifdef should be kicked here and the proposed change seems fine to me.
#endif /* SCHED_DEBUG && HAVE_JUMP_LABEL */
-- 2.17.0