linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] slub: Fix signedness warnings

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.00.1009291329400.9797@chino.kir.corp.google.com>
Date:	Wed, 29 Sep 2010 13:30:11 -0700 (PDT)
From:	David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
To:	Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>
cc:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...helsinki.fi>,
	Matt Mackall <mpm@...enic.com>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] slub: Fix signedness warnings

On Wed, 29 Sep 2010, Namhyung Kim wrote:

> The bit-ops routines require its arg to be a pointer to unsigned long.
> This leads sparse to complain about different signedness as follows:
> 
>  mm/slub.c:2425:49: warning: incorrect type in argument 2 (different signedness)
>  mm/slub.c:2425:49:    expected unsigned long volatile *addr
>  mm/slub.c:2425:49:    got long *map
> 
> Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...il.com>

Acked-by: David Rientjes <rientjes@...gle.com>
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