Re: [PATCH] alpha: Define pgprot_modify to silence tautological comparison warnings

On Fri, Apr 3, 2026 at 5:01 PM Matt Turner <[email protected]> wrote:
>
> Alpha's pgprot_noncached, pgprot_writecombine, and pgprot_device are
> all identity macros, so the generic pgprot_modify() produces
> tautological self-comparisons that GCC warns about:
>
>   include/linux/pgtable.h:1701:25: warning: self-comparison always
>   evaluates to true [-Wtautological-compare]
>
> Since all caching attributes are no-ops on Alpha, define
> pgprot_modify() to simply return newprot.
>
> Assisted-by: Claude:claude-opus-4-6
> Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <[email protected]>
> ---
>  arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h | 11 +++++++++++
>  1 file changed, 11 insertions(+)
>
> diff --git ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h
> index e786f630de5c..849abe2a1f98 100644
> --- ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h
> +++ ./arch/alpha/include/asm/pgtable.h
> @@ -126,6 +126,17 @@ struct vm_area_struct;
>   */
>  #define pgprot_noncached(prot) (prot)
>
> +/*
> + * All caching attribute macros are identity on Alpha, so the generic
> + * pgprot_modify() degenerates to tautological self-comparisons.
> + * Override it to just return newprot directly.
> + */
> +#define pgprot_modify pgprot_modify
> +static inline pgprot_t pgprot_modify(pgprot_t oldprot, pgprot_t newprot)
> +{
> +       return newprot;
> +}
> +
>  /*
>   * ZERO_PAGE is a global shared page that is always zero:  used
>   * for zero-mapped memory areas etc..
> --

Looks good to me.

Reviewed-by: Magnus Lindholm <[email protected]>