Re: [PATCH 00/16] mm: prepare for converting vm->vm_flags to 64-bit

Andrew Morton
2012-03-22T21:41:28Z

On Thu, 22 Mar 2012 21:28:11 +0000
Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> wrote:

> On Thu, Mar 22, 2012 at 02:26:47PM -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> > It would be nice to find some way of triggering compiler warnings or
> > sparse warnings if someone mixes a 32-bit type with a vm_flags_t. Any
> > thoughts on this?
> >
> > (Maybe that's what __nocast does, but Documentation/sparse.txt doesn't
> > describe it)
>
> Use __bitwise for that - check how gfp_t is handled.

So what does __nocast do?