Re: [PATCH] mm/mmu_notifier: fix mmu_notifier_range_init warning

From: Jerome Glisse
Date: Tue Dec 11 2018 - 17:19:42 EST


On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:53:03PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 11, 2018 at 10:43 PM David Rientjes <rientjes@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 11 Dec 2018, Jerome Glisse wrote:
>
> >
> > Hmm, strange that Arnd's build failure is only reporting about an unused
> > variable instead of MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR being undefined :/
> >
> > I think this should be done so that anybody using
> > mmu_notifier_range_init() doesn't need to worry about the implications of
> > *any* unused formal parameter as a result of how the #define is formed:
>
> Your patch below is more or less what I tried at first, and that resulted
> in another build failure for
>
> mm/hugetlb.c: mmu_notifier_range_init(&range, mm, start, end,
> MMU_NOTIFY_CLEAR);
> mm/hugetlb.c- adjust_range_if_pmd_sharing_possible(vma,
> &range.start, &range.end);
>
> where range.end refers to a nonexisting member of range.
>
> Arnd

I will post a v3 with htmldoc fix and build warning fix incorporated.

Cheers,
Jérôme