On Thu, 18 Apr 2013 22:54:15 +0900 Namjae Jeon <linkinjeon@xxxxxxxxx> wrote: > Change Log: > v5: change to avoid compilation warning: > fs/fat/inode.c: In function 'fat_zero_falloc_area': > >> fs/fat/inode.c:169:11: warning: comparison of distinct pointer > types lacks a cast [enabled by default] The patch does more than that - here's the v4->v5 delta: --- a/fs/fat/file.c~fat-additions-to-support-fat_fallocate-v5 +++ a/fs/fat/file.c @@ -153,7 +153,6 @@ static int fat_file_release(struct inode */ mutex_lock(&inode->i_mutex); mmu_private_ideal = round_up(inode->i_size, sb->s_blocksize); - if (mmu_private_ideal < MSDOS_I(inode)->mmu_private && filp->f_dentry->d_count == 1) fat_truncate_blocks(inode, inode->i_size); @@ -231,7 +230,6 @@ static int fat_cont_expand(struct inode out: return err; } - /* * Preallocate space for a file. This implements fat's fallocate file * operation, which gets called from sys_fallocate system call. User @@ -281,10 +279,8 @@ static long fat_fallocate(struct file *f sbi->cluster_bits; } else nr_bytes = offset + len - inode->i_size; - nr_cluster = (nr_bytes + (sbi->cluster_size - 1)) >> sbi->cluster_bits; - /* Start the allocation.We are not zeroing out the clusters */ while (nr_cluster-- > 0) { err = fat_alloc_clusters(inode, &cluster, 1); @@ -308,12 +304,10 @@ static long fat_fallocate(struct file *f "fat_fallocate(): fat_cont_expand() error"); } } - error: mutex_unlock(&inode->i_mutex); return err; } - /* Free all clusters after the skip'th cluster. */ static int fat_free(struct inode *inode, int skip) { --- a/fs/fat/inode.c~fat-additions-to-support-fat_fallocate-v5 +++ a/fs/fat/inode.c @@ -166,7 +166,7 @@ static int fat_zero_falloc_area(struct f offset = (curpos & (PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - 1)); bytes = PAGE_CACHE_SIZE - offset; - bytes = min(bytes, count); + bytes = min_t(size_t, bytes, count); err = pagecache_write_begin(NULL, mapping, curpos, bytes, AOP_FLAG_UNINTERRUPTIBLE, The whitespace changes are mostly dubious and the ones which remove the newline after a function's final brace are simply wrong. The min_t change is unneeded - it's better to make the type of `bytes' size_t. So I shall skip v5. BTW, I don't intend to send this patch into Linus until I have heard from hirofumi. Please let me know if he has already reviewed and acked it? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-fsdevel" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html