On Thu, Aug 19, 2010 at 02:23:09PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > IMHO it would be better to simply disable the warning in sparse instead > of uglying the code just to work around sparse bogosity. It doesnt' seem > to make much sense. A subtraction followed by a shift is not expensive. What makes you think it's a shift? struct page isn't necessarily a power of two in size. The original poster said "allyesconfig" which is going to add in KMEMCHECK and WANT_PAGE_DEBUG_FLAGS. I think that makes it 76 bytes on x86-32, so sparse is right to warn. -- Matthew Wilcox Intel Open Source Technology Centre "Bill, look, we understand that you're interested in selling us this operating system, but compare it to ours. We can't possibly take such a retrograde step." -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html