On 08/03, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
>
> Subject: [PATCH] mm: drop __nocast from vm_flags_t definition
>
> __nocast does no good for vm_flags_t. It only produces useless sparse
> warnings.
>
> Let's drop it.
Personally I like this change.
I too see no value in this "__nocast".
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/linux/mm_types.h | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/linux/mm_types.h b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> index 1fb4e46a1736..b9134cc27c4d 100644
> --- a/include/linux/mm_types.h
> +++ b/include/linux/mm_types.h
> @@ -226,7 +226,7 @@ struct page_frag {
> #endif
> };
>
> -typedef unsigned long __nocast vm_flags_t;
> +typedef unsigned long vm_flags_t;
>
> /*
> * A region containing a mapping of a non-memory backed file under NOMMU
> --
> 2.4.6
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