Re: linux-next: build warning after merge of the akpm-current tree

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On Thu, 2019-08-01 at 08:15 +0200, Michal Hocko wrote:
> On Thu 01-08-19 15:51:30, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > Hi Miles,
> > 
> > On Wed, 31 Jul 2019 14:28:04 +0800 Miles Chen <miles.chen@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > >
> > > On Wed, 2019-07-31 at 16:11 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > > 
> > > > After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc
> > > > ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
> > > > 
> > > > mm/memcontrol.c: In function 'invalidate_reclaim_iterators':
> > > > mm/memcontrol.c:1160:11: warning: suggest parentheses around assignment used as truth value [-Wparentheses]
> > > >   } while (memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg));
> > > >            ^~~~~
> > > >   
> > > 
> > > Hi Stephen,
> > > 
> > > Thanks for the telling me this. Sorry for the build warning. 
> > > Should I send patch v5 to the mailing list to fix this? 
> > 
> > You might as well (cc'ing Andrew, of course).
> > 
> > I would suggest finishing that loop like this:
> > 
> > 		memcg = parent_mem_cgroup(memcg);
> > 	} while (memcg);
> > 
> > rather than adding a set of parentheses.

thanks for the advise
> 
> Qian has already posted a patch http://lkml.kernel.org/r/1564580753-17531-1-git-send-email-cai@xxxxxx

Thanks Qian's quick fix.

It's the first time that I receive a build warning after the patch has
been merged to -mm tree. The build warning had been fixed by Qian,
should I send another change for this?





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