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Message-ID: <4ABA3B0A.5010403@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
Date:	Wed, 23 Sep 2009 17:13:14 +0200
From:	Stefan Richter <stefanr@...6.in-berlin.de>
To:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>
CC:	Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@...il.com>,
	Eric B Munson <ebmunson@...ibm.com>,
	Johannes Berg <johannes@...solutions.net>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@...ux.ie>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: v2.6.31-7381-g7fa0772: new build warnings: kmemcheck, 	__deprecated,
 hugetlb, radeon

Pekka Enberg wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 23, 2009 at 10:19 AM, Jean Delvare <khali@...ux-fr.org> wrote:
[...]
>> --- linux-2.6.32-pre.orig/include/linux/kmemcheck.h     2009-09-23 08:19:34.000000000 +0200
>> +++ linux-2.6.32-pre/include/linux/kmemcheck.h  2009-09-23 09:05:30.000000000 +0200
>> @@ -145,10 +145,12 @@ static inline bool kmemcheck_is_obj_init
>>
>>  #define kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield(ptr, name)                         \
>>        do {                                                            \
>> +               int _n;                                                 \
>> +                                                                       \
>>                if (!ptr)                                               \
>>                        break;                                          \
>>                                                                        \
>> -               int _n = (long) &((ptr)->name##_end)                    \
>> +               _n = (long) &((ptr)->name##_end)                        \
>>                        - (long) &((ptr)->name##_begin);                \
>>                BUILD_BUG_ON(_n < 0);                                   \
>>                                                                        \
> 
> Oh, I was looking at an old version. The fix looks good to me, thanks Jean!
> 
> Acked-by: Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>

Things have been set into motion already, see akpm's comment to thread
"[PATCH] kmemcheck: clean up kmemcheck_annotate_bitfield",
http://lkml.org/lkml/2009/9/22/585
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Stefan Richter
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