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Message-ID: <20120322212810.GE6589@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Date: Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:28:11 +0000
From: Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: Konstantin Khlebnikov <khlebnikov@...nvz.org>,
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 Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:26:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 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)
Use __bitwise for that - check how gfp_t is handled.
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