linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm: prepare for converting vm->vm

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Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 16:09:44 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...fujitsu.com>,
	Ben Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
	"linux@....linux.org.uk" <linux@....linux.org.uk>,
	Christopher Li <sparse@...isli.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm: prepare for converting vm->vm_flags to 64-bit

On Fri, 23 Mar 2012 02:52:05 +0400
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org> wrote:

> >> Is this ok?
> >
> > Yes.
> >
> > The thing about __nocast is that it's so *very* very easy to lose it.
> > For example, do this:
> >
> >    typedef long __nocast long_t;
> >
> >    int main(long_t a)
> >    {
> >          return a;
> >    }
> >
> > and you get the (expected) warning.
> >
> > HOWEVER. Now do "return a+1" instead, and the warning goes away. Why?
> > Because the expression ends up having just the type "long", because
> > the "a" mixed happily with the "1" (that was cast from 'int' to 'long'
> > by the normal C type rules).
> >
> > That is arguably a bug, but this kind of thing really wasn't what
> > __nocast was designed for. The __nocast design ended up being too
> > weak, though, and we hardly use it in the kernel.
> >
> 
> Thanks. Looks like "__nocast" totally undocumented.
> It would be nice to add something about this into Documentation/sparse.txt

Yup, Chris has added this to his todo list (thanks!).
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