Christoph Lameter wrote: > On Tue, 15 Oct 2013, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > > > Feel free to propose a patch. I don't see much point. > > Right now you are using a long to stand in for a spinlock_t or a pointer > to a spinlock_t. An #ifdef would allow to define the proper type and > therefore the compiler to check that the ptl is correctly used. You should not use it directly anyway: page->ptl is not there at all if USE_SPLIT_PTE_PTLOCKS is 0. Compiler checks limited to few helpers and use a kbuild hack is overkill to me. -- Kirill A. Shutemov -- To unsubscribe, send a message with 'unsubscribe linux-mm' in the body to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx. For more info on Linux MM, see: http://www.linux-mm.org/ . Don't email: <a href=mailto:"dont@xxxxxxxxx";> email@xxxxxxxxx </a>