Re: [PATCH 01/21] powerpc: Remove warning on array size when empty

From: Michael Ellerman
Date: Wed Feb 28 2018 - 21:56:07 EST


Mathieu Malaterre <malat@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> When neither CONFIG_ALTIVEC, nor CONFIG_VSX or CONFIG_PPC64 is defined, the
> array feature_properties is defined as an empty array, which in turn
> triggers the following warning (treated as error on W=1):
>
> CC arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.o
> arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c: In function âcheck_cpu_feature_propertiesâ:
> arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c:298:16: error: comparison of unsigned expression < 0 is always false [-Werror=type-limits]
> for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(feature_properties); ++i, ++fp) {
> ^
> cc1: all warnings being treated as errors

Ugh, that's annoying.

This seems to work?

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
index 4dffef947b8a..5215119e249c 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/prom.c
@@ -291,11 +291,11 @@ static inline void identical_pvr_fixup(unsigned long node)

static void __init check_cpu_feature_properties(unsigned long node)
{
- unsigned long i;
struct feature_property *fp = feature_properties;
const __be32 *prop;
+ int i;

- for (i = 0; i < ARRAY_SIZE(feature_properties); ++i, ++fp) {
+ for (i = 0; i < (int)ARRAY_SIZE(feature_properties); ++i, ++fp) {
prop = of_get_flat_dt_prop(node, fp->name, NULL);
if (prop && be32_to_cpup(prop) >= fp->min_value) {
cur_cpu_spec->cpu_features |= fp->cpu_feature;


cheers