Hello Miquel,

A situation noted by the warning below won't cause any problem because
the casting is done to a non-dereferenced variable. It is utilized
as a pointer bias later in that function. Shall we just ignore the
warning or still fix it somehow?

-Sergey

On Mon, Nov 02, 2020 at 12:42:57PM +0800, kernel test robot wrote:
> tree:   https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git 
> master
> head:   3cea11cd5e3b00d91caf0b4730194039b45c5891
> commit: b3e79e7682e075326df8041b826b03453acacd0a mtd: physmap: Add Baikal-T1 
> physically mapped ROM support
> date:   4 weeks ago
> config: sparc64-randconfig-s032-20201031 (attached as .config)
> compiler: sparc64-linux-gcc (GCC) 9.3.0
> reproduce:
>         wget 
> https://raw.githubusercontent.com/intel/lkp-tests/master/sbin/make.cross -O 
> ~/bin/make.cross
>         chmod +x ~/bin/make.cross
>         # apt-get install sparse
>         # sparse version: v0.6.3-76-gf680124b-dirty
>         # 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git/commit/?id=b3e79e7682e075326df8041b826b03453acacd0a
>         git remote add linus 
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git
>         git fetch --no-tags linus master
>         git checkout b3e79e7682e075326df8041b826b03453acacd0a
>         # save the attached .config to linux build tree
>         COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-9.3.0 make.cross C=1 
> CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' ARCH=sparc64 
> 
> If you fix the issue, kindly add following tag as appropriate
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <l...@intel.com>
> 
> 
> "sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>)"
> >> drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c:78:18: sparse: sparse: cast removes 
> >> address space '__iomem' of expression
> 
> vim +/__iomem +78 drivers/mtd/maps/physmap-bt1-rom.c
> 
>     57        
>     58        static void __xipram bt1_rom_map_copy_from(struct map_info *map,
>     59                                                   void *to, unsigned 
> long from,
>     60                                                   ssize_t len)
>     61        {
>     62                void __iomem *src = map->virt + from;
>     63                ssize_t shift, chunk;
>     64                u32 data;
>     65        
>     66                if (len <= 0 || from >= map->size)
>     67                        return;
>     68        
>     69                /* Make sure we don't go over the map limit. */
>     70                len = min_t(ssize_t, map->size - from, len);
>     71        
>     72                /*
>     73                 * Since requested data size can be pretty big we have 
> to implement
>     74                 * the copy procedure as optimal as possible. That's 
> why it's split
>     75                 * up into the next three stages: unaligned head, 
> aligned body,
>     76                 * unaligned tail.
>     77                 */
>   > 78                shift = (ssize_t)src & 0x3;
>     79                if (shift) {
>     80                        chunk = min_t(ssize_t, 4 - shift, len);
>     81                        data = readl_relaxed(src - shift);
>     82                        memcpy(to, &data + shift, chunk);
>     83                        src += chunk;
>     84                        to += chunk;
>     85                        len -= chunk;
>     86                }
>     87        
>     88                while (len >= 4) {
>     89                        data = readl_relaxed(src);
>     90                        memcpy(to, &data, 4);
>     91                        src += 4;
>     92                        to += 4;
>     93                        len -= 4;
>     94                }
>     95        
>     96                if (len) {
>     97                        data = readl_relaxed(src);
>     98                        memcpy(to, &data, len);
>     99                }
>    100        }
>    101        
> 
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