linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] mm: fix noisy sparse warning in LIBCFS_ALLOC

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Date:	Sun, 27 Dec 2015 05:41:17 +0000
From:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
To:	Joshua Clayton <stillcompiling@...il.com>
Cc:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>, linux-mm@...ck.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
	Oleg Drokin <oleg.drokin@...el.com>,
	Andreas Dilger <andreas.dilger@...el.com>,
	lustre-devel@...ts.lustre.org, devel@...verdev.osuosl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: fix noisy sparse warning in LIBCFS_ALLOC_PRE()

On Sat, Dec 26, 2015 at 09:12:42PM -0800, Joshua Clayton wrote:
> running sparse on drivers/staging/lustre results in dozens of warnings:
> include/linux/gfp.h:281:41: warning:
> odd constant _Bool cast (400000 becomes 1)
> 
> Use "!!" to explicitly convert the result to bool range.

... and the cast to bool is left in order to...?

> -	return (bool __force)(gfp_flags & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM);
> +	return (bool __force)!!(gfp_flags & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM);
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