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

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Fri Nov 07 2008 - 14:38:35 EST


* Harvey Harrison (harvey.harrison@xxxxxxxxx) wrote:
> 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 ;-)
>

I think a cast

(__force unsigned) could be required for checker ?

#ifdef __CHECKER__
#define __bitwise__ __attribute__((bitwise))
#else
#define __bitwise__
#endif

typedef unsigned __bitwise__ gfp_t;

OTOH, adding a

%uB to printk so it supports bitwise variables may not hurt...

Mathieu

> Thanks.
>
> Harvey
>

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