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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Marcelo Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br>
Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Christoph Lameter <cl@linux-foundation.org>,
	Mel Gorman <mel@csn.ul.ie>, Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>,
	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, Yinghai Lu <yinghai@kernel.org>,
	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: Suspicious compilation warning
Date: Tue, 20 Apr 2010 15:51:22 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100420155122.6f2c26eb.akpm@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <k2ncecb6d8f1004191627w3cd36450xf797f746460abb09@mail.gmail.com>

On Mon, 19 Apr 2010 20:27:43 -0300
Marcelo Jimenez <mroberto@cpti.cetuc.puc-rio.br> wrote:

> I get this warning while compiling for ARM/SA1100:
> 
> mm/sparse.c: In function '__section_nr':
> mm/sparse.c:135: warning: 'root' is used uninitialized in this function
> 
> With a small patch in fs/proc/meminfo.c, I find that NR_SECTION_ROOTS
> is zero, which certainly explains the warning.
> 
> # cat /proc/meminfo
> NR_SECTION_ROOTS=0
> NR_MEM_SECTIONS=32
> SECTIONS_PER_ROOT=512
> SECTIONS_SHIFT=5
> MAX_PHYSMEM_BITS=32

hm, who owns sparsemem nowadays? Nobody identifiable.

Does it make physical sense to have SECTIONS_PER_ROOT > NR_MEM_SECTIONS?

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-04-20 22:52 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-04-19 23:27 Suspicious compilation warning Marcelo Jimenez
2010-04-20 22:51 ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2010-04-20 23:07   ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-04 17:35     ` Marcelo Jimenez
2010-05-04 17:45       ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2010-05-04 18:16         ` Marcelo Jimenez
2010-05-05 10:06     ` Sergei Shtylyov
2010-05-06  1:24       ` Kyungmin Park
2010-05-06 13:24         ` Marcelo Jimenez
2010-05-10 15:40   ` Mel Gorman

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