linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH next/mmotm] slab: fix DEBUG

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Message-ID: <alpine.LSU.2.00.1107130852590.6020@sister.anvils>
Date:	Wed, 13 Jul 2011 08:59:05 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Hugh Dickins <hughd@...gle.com>
To:	Christoph Lameter <cl@...ux.com>
cc:	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH next/mmotm] slab: fix DEBUG_SLAB build

On Wed, 13 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > On Tue, 12 Jul 2011, Christoph Lameter wrote:
> > > On Mon, 11 Jul 2011, Hugh Dickins wrote:
> > >
> > > > -#if ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN
> > > > -	if ((u32)objp & (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN-1)) {
> > > > +	if ((unsigned long)objp & (ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN-1)) {
> > > >  		printk(KERN_ERR "0x%p: not aligned to ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN=%d\n",
> > >
> > > Change %d to %ul for consistencies sake and drop the cast of
> > > ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN?
> >
> > I don't think we can drop the cast of ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN, or not without
> > a wander through all the architectures: it could well be defined as a bare
> > integer in some of them, even if the default definition as __alignof__
> > comes out as an unsigned long (which itself surprised me).
> 
> A bare integer can be handled by a %lu in a printk without the need for a
> cast.

Really?  Here if I try that on x86_64 with #define ARCH_SLAB_MINALIGN 8, I get
mm/slab.c: In function `cache_alloc_debugcheck_after':
mm/slab.c:3160:10: warning: format `%lu' expects type `long unsigned int', but argument 3 has type `int'

Hugh
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