Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: vmemmap and vmalloc base addressess are usngined longs

[Kirill A. Shutemov]

On Mon, Apr 16, 2018 at 09:43:02AM +0000, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> On Thu, 12 Apr 2018, Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> 
> > > Commits 9b46a051e4 ("x86/mm: Initialize vmemmap_base at boot-time") and 
> > > a7412546d8 ("x86/mm: Adjust vmalloc base and size at boot-time") lost the 
> > > type information for __VMALLOC_BASE_L4, __VMALLOC_BASE_L5, 
> > > __VMEMMAP_BASE_L4 and __VMEMMAP_BASE_L5 constants.
> > > 
> > > Let's declare them explicitly unsigned long again.
> > 
> > It is just cosmetics, right? I mean these literals are 'unsigned long'
> > anyway.
> 
> Yeah, I can't imagine this particular case leading to any overflow 
> scenario, as the literal is big enough to be automatically treated as 
> unsigned long by the compiler, but it shuts up sparse which treats this as 
> a generic case (where the missing UL might be a problem), and totally 
> pollutes the build output.
> 
> Either we put the 'UL' there, or teach sparse about figuring out the 
> 'closer bigger fitting type' for hexadecimal literals, which might be more 
> tricky.

I don't have a problem with the patch:

Acked-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <kirill.shutemov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>

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 Kirill A. Shutemov