Re: linux-next: percpu tree build warning

Christoph Lameter
2009-11-12T15:19:19Z

On Thu, 12 Nov 2009, Stephen Rothwell wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning:
>
> drivers/net/loopback.c: In function 'loopback_get_stats':
> drivers/net/loopback.c:109: warning: initialization discards qualifiers from pointer target type
>
> The line in question is:
>
> lb_stats = per_cpu_ptr(pcpu_lstats, i);
>
> Where "lb_stats" and "pcpu_lstats" are both "const struct pcpu_lstats
> *". I guess this is because of __verify_pcpu_ptr().

hmm... pcpu_lstats needs to be correctly qualified I guess.