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Message-Id: <20120322142647.42395398.akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Date:	Thu, 22 Mar 2012 14:26:47 -0700
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>
Cc:	Minchan Kim <minchan@...nel.org>,
	"linux-mm@...ck.org" <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.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>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm: prepare for converting vm->vm_flags to 64-bit

On Wed, 21 Mar 2012 17:16:06 +0400
Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org> wrote:

> Minchan Kim wrote:
> > Hi Konstantin,
> >
> > It seems to be nice clean up to me and you are a volunteer we have been wanted
> > for a long time. Thanks!
> > I am one of people who really want to expand vm_flags to 64 bit but when KOSAKI
> > tried it, Linus said his concerning, I guess you already saw that.
> >
> > He want to tidy vm_flags's usage up rather than expanding it.
> > Without the discussion about that, just expanding vm_flags would make us use
> > it up easily so that we might need more space.
> 
> Strictly speaking, my pachset does not expands vm_flags, it just prepares to this.
> Anyway vm_flags_t looks better than hard-coded "unsigned long" and messy type-casts around it.

It would be nice to find some way of triggering compiler warnings or
sparse warnings if someone mixes a 32-bit type with a vm_flags_t.  Any
thoughts on this?

(Maybe that's what __nocast does, but Documentation/sparse.txt doesn't
describe it)
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