The patch titled Subject: mm: fix up sparse warning in gfpflags_allow_blocking has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is mm-fix-up-sparse-warning-in-gfpflags_allow_blocking.patch This patch should soon appear at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmots/broken-out/mm-fix-up-sparse-warning-in-gfpflags_allow_blocking.patch and later at http://ozlabs.org/~akpm/mmotm/broken-out/mm-fix-up-sparse-warning-in-gfpflags_allow_blocking.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** The -mm tree is included into linux-next and is updated there every 3-4 working days ------------------------------------------------------ From: Jeff Layton <jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Subject: mm: fix up sparse warning in gfpflags_allow_blocking sparse says: include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: warning: incorrect type in return expression (different base types) include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: expected bool include/linux/gfp.h:274:26: got restricted gfp_t ...add a forced cast to silence the warning. Signed-off-by: Jeff Layton <jeff.layton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Mel Gorman <mgorman@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/gfp.h | 2 +- 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) diff -puN include/linux/gfp.h~mm-fix-up-sparse-warning-in-gfpflags_allow_blocking include/linux/gfp.h --- a/include/linux/gfp.h~mm-fix-up-sparse-warning-in-gfpflags_allow_blocking +++ a/include/linux/gfp.h @@ -271,7 +271,7 @@ static inline int gfpflags_to_migratetyp static inline bool gfpflags_allow_blocking(const gfp_t gfp_flags) { - return gfp_flags & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM; + return (bool __force)(gfp_flags & __GFP_DIRECT_RECLAIM); } #ifdef CONFIG_HIGHMEM _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from jlayton@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are mm-fix-up-sparse-warning-in-gfpflags_allow_blocking.patch fsnotify-destroy-marks-with-call_srcu-instead-of-dedicated-thread.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html