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Subject: Re: [PATCH 7/8] percpu: add __percpu sparse annotations to
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Date: Tue, 26 Jan 2010 02:48:57 +0000
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On Tue, Jan 26, 2010 at 11:43:56AM +0900, Tejun Heo wrote:

> > Eh...  You are leaving that noderef in place in case of array.  And _that_
> > is not an address space, so casts to AS 0 won't do you any good.
> 
> Any ideas on how to fix it?

BTW, before we go any further, which warnings are you getting from sparse
and which version of sparse are you using?

noderef is one thing; address_space mess is a different story.  The version
I have here steps into the former, but not the latter; what are you seeing?