linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: mmu: Add cast to negated bitmasks in update_permission

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Date:   Tue, 19 Jun 2018 17:18:02 -0700
From:   Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
To:     Matthias Kaehlcke <mka@...omium.org>
Cc:     Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@...hat.com>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>, rkrcmar@...hat.com,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>, hpa@...or.com,
        x86@...nel.org, kvm@...r.kernel.org,
        LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] kvm: x86: mmu: Add cast to negated bitmasks in
 update_permission_bitmask()

On Tue, 2018-06-19 at 16:45 -0700, Matthias Kaehlcke wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 19, 2018 at 02:55:05PM -0700, Joe Perches wrote:
> > Well, you advocate to disable a possibly useful warning globally ...
> > You're advocating for making the code more complex/ugly for a
> > condition where the result is identical.
> My goal is no to make the code (slightly) more complex/ugly but have
> the rest of the kernel benefit from a possibly useful warning.

For what case in the kernel is this warning useful?