On Fri, 24 Jul 2015, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote: > sparse complains on each and every vm_flags_t initialization, even with > proper VM_* constants. > > Do we really want to fix that? > > To me it's too much pain and no gain. __nocast is not beneficial here. > > And I'm not sure that vm_flags_t typedef was a good idea after all. > Originally, it was intended to become 64-bit one day, but four years later > it's still unsigned long. Plain unsigned long works fine for other bit > field. > > What is special about vm_flags? > Maybe remove the __nocast until it's a different type? Seems like all these sites would have to be audited when that happens anyway. -- 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>