From: Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@petrovitsch.priv.at>
To: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] introduce ptr_diff()
Date: Thu, 19 Aug 2010 15:05:13 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1282223113.10440.78.camel@thorin> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100819125957.GB6729@basil.fritz.box>
On Don, 2010-08-19 at 14:59 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > If so, the warning seems valid as sizeof(struct page) is probably not
> > (always) a power of 2. On a native build on x86_64 it is 56 bytes
> > hereover.
> > Hmm ....
>
> gcc just generats a mull with inverted value. mull is cheap on any
> reasonable CPU. Please fix sparse.
Not that I really know the code of sparse but what would be an
acceptable condition (except plain simply disabling/removing the warning
as such)?
No warning if it's a constant value (read: explicit or sizeof())?
Bernd
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-08-19 13:05 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-08-19 11:37 [RFC][PATCH] introduce ptr_diff() Namhyung Kim
2010-08-19 11:57 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:03 ` David Howells
2010-08-19 16:18 ` Måns Rullgård
2010-08-19 12:23 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:40 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-19 12:58 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 12:48 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 12:59 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-19 13:05 ` Bernd Petrovitsch [this message]
2010-08-19 13:39 ` Andi Kleen
2010-08-20 12:12 ` Al Viro
2010-08-19 15:53 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-19 16:04 ` Bernd Petrovitsch
2010-08-19 16:12 ` Namhyung Kim
2010-08-20 12:07 ` Al Viro
2010-08-20 12:49 ` Matthew Wilcox
2010-08-20 12:57 ` Andi Kleen
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