kbuild produces the below warning -> tree: https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/torvalds/linux.git master head: 5453a3df2a5eb49bc24615d4cf0d66b2aae05e5f commit 3d3539018d2c ("mm: create the new vm_fault_t type") reproduce: # apt-get install sparse git checkout 3d3539018d2cbd12e5af4a132636ee7fd8d43ef0 make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig make C=1 CF='-fdiagnostic-prefix -D__CHECK_ENDIAN__' >> mm/memory.c:3968:21: sparse: incorrect type in assignment (different >> base types) @@ expected restricted vm_fault_t [usertype] ret @@ >> got e] ret @@ mm/memory.c:3968:21: expected restricted vm_fault_t [usertype] ret mm/memory.c:3968:21: got int This patch will convert to return vm_fault_t type for hugetlb_fault() when CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE =n. Signed-off-by: Souptick Joarder <jrdr.linux@xxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/hugetlb.h | 8 +++++++- 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/linux/hugetlb.h b/include/linux/hugetlb.h index 087fd5f4..0ee502a 100644 --- a/include/linux/hugetlb.h +++ b/include/linux/hugetlb.h @@ -203,7 +203,6 @@ static inline void hugetlb_show_meminfo(void) #define pud_huge(x) 0 #define is_hugepage_only_range(mm, addr, len) 0 #define hugetlb_free_pgd_range(tlb, addr, end, floor, ceiling) ({BUG(); 0; }) -#define hugetlb_fault(mm, vma, addr, flags) ({ BUG(); 0; }) #define hugetlb_mcopy_atomic_pte(dst_mm, dst_pte, dst_vma, dst_addr, \ src_addr, pagep) ({ BUG(); 0; }) #define huge_pte_offset(mm, address, sz) 0 @@ -234,6 +233,13 @@ static inline void __unmap_hugepage_range(struct mmu_gather *tlb, { BUG(); } +static inline vm_fault_t hugetlb_fault(struct mm_struct *mm, + struct vm_area_struct *vma, unsigned long address, + unsigned int flags) +{ + BUG(); + return 0; +} #endif /* !CONFIG_HUGETLB_PAGE */ /* -- 1.9.1
