Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: avoid sparse {get,put}_unaligned warning

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 7:01 PM Al Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Sat, Jul 24, 2021 at 06:24:29PM +0200, Sven Eckelmann wrote:
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> > The special attribute force must be used in such statements when the cast
> > is known to be safe to avoid these warnings.

I can see why this would warn, but I'm having trouble reproducing the
warning on linux-next.

>         How about container_of(ptr, typeof(*__pptr), x) instead of a cast?
> Would be easier to follow...

If both work equally well, I'd prefer Sven's patch since that only
expands 'type'
once, while container_of() expands it three more times. This may not make
much of a difference, but I've seen a number of cases where nested macros
can explode the preprocessed code size enough to slow down kernel compilation
over all, and it's quite possible to have get_unaligned()/put_unaligned in
the middle of that, with a complex expression passed into that.

      Arnd