Re: [PATCH-ugly] kmemtrace: casting a gfp_t requires __force

[Harvey Harrison]

On Fri, 2008-11-07 at 22:20 +0300, Alexey Dobriyan wrote:
> On Fri, Nov 07, 2008 at 10:58:41AM -0800, Harvey Harrison wrote:
> > --- a/include/linux/kmemtrace.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/kmemtrace.h
> > @@ -34,7 +34,7 @@ static inline void kmemtrace_mark_alloc_node(enum kmemtrace_type_id type_id,
> >  		   "bytes_req %lu bytes_alloc %lu gfp_flags %lu node %d",
> >  		   type_id, call_site, (unsigned long) ptr,
> >  		   (unsigned long) bytes_req, (unsigned long) bytes_alloc,
> > -		   (unsigned long) gfp_flags, node);
> > +		   (__force unsigned long)gfp_flags, node);
> 
> gfp_t is "unsigned int" actually. These casts are bogus.
> 
> Subject: How do I printk <type> correctly?
> 
> If variable is of Type	use	printk format specifier.
> ---------------------------------------------------------
> 		int			%d or %x
> 		unsigned int		%u or %x
> 		long			%ld ot %lx
> 		unsigned long		%lu or %lx
> 		long long		%lld or %llx
> 		unsigned long long	%llu or %llx
> 		size_t			%zu or %zx
> 		ssize_t			%zd or %zx
> 

Perhaps add gfp_t to the list ;-)

Thanks.

Harvey

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