Hi Christophe, I love your patch! Perhaps something to improve:
[auto build test WARNING on powerpc/next] [also build test WARNING on powerpc/topic/ppc-kvm v5.18-rc5 next-20220506] [cannot apply to rostedt-trace/for-next] [If your patch is applied to the wrong git tree, kindly drop us a note. And when submitting patch, we suggest to use '--base' as documented in https://git-scm.com/docs/git-format-patch] url: https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commits/Christophe-Leroy/powerpc-ftrace-optimisation-and-cleanup-and-more-v2/20220507-145034 base: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git next config: powerpc-randconfig-s031-20220506 (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20220507/202205071900.ophswe8v-...@intel.com/config) compiler: powerpc-linux-gcc (GCC) 11.3.0 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: v0.6.4-dirty # https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux/commit/1c6a385ed330a6ed959cad02f89306fb84e4334c git remote add linux-review https://github.com/intel-lab-lkp/linux git fetch --no-tags linux-review Christophe-Leroy/powerpc-ftrace-optimisation-and-cleanup-and-more-v2/20220507-145034 git checkout 1c6a385ed330a6ed959cad02f89306fb84e4334c # save the config file mkdir build_dir && cp config build_dir/.config COMPILER_INSTALL_PATH=$HOME/0day COMPILER=gcc-11.3.0 make.cross C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' O=build_dir ARCH=powerpc SHELL=/bin/bash arch/powerpc/kernel/ 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 >>) >> arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:298:43: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in >> argument 1 (different base types) @@ expected struct ppc_inst_t >> [usertype] *inst @@ got unsigned int * @@ arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:298:43: sparse: expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:298:43: sparse: got unsigned int * arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:300:49: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@ expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst @@ got unsigned int * @@ arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:300:49: sparse: expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:300:49: sparse: got unsigned int * arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:302:49: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@ expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst @@ got unsigned int * @@ arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:302:49: sparse: expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:302:49: sparse: got unsigned int * arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:304:49: sparse: sparse: incorrect type in argument 1 (different base types) @@ expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst @@ got unsigned int * @@ arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:304:49: sparse: expected struct ppc_inst_t [usertype] *inst arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c:304:49: sparse: got unsigned int * vim +298 arch/powerpc/kernel/module_32.c 290 291 #ifdef CONFIG_DYNAMIC_FTRACE 292 notrace int module_trampoline_target(struct module *mod, unsigned long addr, 293 unsigned long *target) 294 { 295 unsigned int jmp[4]; 296 297 /* Find where the trampoline jumps to */ > 298 if (copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault(jmp, (void *)addr)) 299 return -EFAULT; 300 if (__copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault(jmp + 1, (void *)addr + 4)) 301 return -EFAULT; 302 if (__copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault(jmp + 2, (void *)addr + 8)) 303 return -EFAULT; 304 if (__copy_inst_from_kernel_nofault(jmp + 3, (void *)addr + 12)) 305 return -EFAULT; 306 307 /* verify that this is what we expect it to be */ 308 if ((jmp[0] & 0xffff0000) != PPC_RAW_LIS(_R12, 0) || 309 (jmp[1] & 0xffff0000) != PPC_RAW_ADDI(_R12, _R12, 0) || 310 jmp[2] != PPC_RAW_MTCTR(_R12) || 311 jmp[3] != PPC_RAW_BCTR()) 312 return -EINVAL; 313 314 addr = (jmp[1] & 0xffff) | ((jmp[0] & 0xffff) << 16); 315 if (addr & 0x8000) 316 addr -= 0x10000; 317 318 *target = addr; 319 320 return 0; 321 } 322 -- 0-DAY CI Kernel Test Service https://01.org/lkp