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Alexei Starovoitov
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GCC's -Wall includes -Wsign-compare while clang does not. Since BPF programs are built with clang we need to add this flag explicitly to catch problematic comparisons like: int i = -1; unsigned int j = 1; if (i < j) // this is false. long i = -1; unsigned int j = 1; if (i < j) // this is true. C standard for reference: - If either operand is unsigned long the other shall be converted to unsigned long. - Otherwise, if one operand is a long int and the other unsigned int, then if a long int can represent all the values of an unsigned int, the unsigned int shall be converted to a long int; otherwise both operands shall be converted to unsigned long int. - Otherwise, if either operand is long, the other shall be converted to long. - Otherwise, if either operand is unsigned, the other shall be converted to unsigned. Unfortunately clang's -Wsign-compare is very noisy. It complains about (s32)a == (u32)b which is safe and doen't have surprising behavior. This patch fixes some of the issues. It needs a follow up to fix the rest. Signed-off-by: Alexei Starovoitov <ast@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrii Nakryiko <andrii@kernel.org> Acked-by: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Acked-by: Kumar Kartikeya Dwivedi <memxor@gmail.com> Link: https://lore.kernel.org/bpf/20231226191148.48536-2-alexei.starovoitov@gmail.com
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.