Re: [PATCH 1/1] mm: vmalloc: Fix a warning in the crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init()

From: Baoquan He
Date: Fri Jan 12 2024 - 00:42:12 EST


On 01/11/24 at 08:23pm, Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) wrote:
> The vmcoreinfo_append_str() function expects "long unsigned int"
> type as a second argument(0x%lx) to print a beginning of vmalloc
> start address which is defined as a VMALLOC_START macro.
>
> For some architectures it can be considered as "int" type, for
> example m68 generates a compile warning message. To fix it cast
> a second argument to "unsigned long".
>
> Fixes: 9bdb180b2d ("mm/vmalloc: remove vmap_area_list")
> Reported-by: kernel test robot <lkp@xxxxxxxxx>
> Closes: https://lore.kernel.org/oe-kbuild-all/202401120218.y469Puyf-lkp@xxxxxxxxx/
> Signed-off-by: Uladzislau Rezki (Sony) <urezki@xxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> kernel/crash_core.c | 2 +-
> 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/kernel/crash_core.c b/kernel/crash_core.c
> index b60de490c1fc..49b31e59d3cc 100644
> --- a/kernel/crash_core.c
> +++ b/kernel/crash_core.c
> @@ -748,7 +748,7 @@ static int __init crash_save_vmcoreinfo_init(void)
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL_ARRAY(swapper_pg_dir);
> #endif
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(_stext);
> - vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(VMALLOC_START)=0x%lx\n", VMALLOC_START);
> + vmcoreinfo_append_str("NUMBER(VMALLOC_START)=0x%lx\n", (unsigned long) VMALLOC_START);

Thanks for the fix.

Acked-by: Baoquan He <bhe@xxxxxxxxxx>

>
> #ifndef CONFIG_NUMA
> VMCOREINFO_SYMBOL(mem_map);
> --
> 2.39.2
>