Re: [PATCH v2] tracing: Make is_signed_type() compatible with sparse

[Steven Rostedt]

On Wed, 2 Sep 2026 09:31:41 -0700
Bart Van Assche <bvanassche@xxxxxxx> wrote:

> $  git grep -nHE '__field.*(blk_opf_t|enum req_op)' include/trace
> include/trace/events/f2fs.h:1185:		__field(enum req_op, op)
> include/trace/events/f2fs.h:1186:		__field(blk_opf_t, op_flags)
> include/trace/events/f2fs.h:1241:		__field(enum req_op,	op)
> include/trace/events/f2fs.h:1242:		__field(blk_opf_t,	op_flags)
> include/trace/events/jbd2.h:364:		__field(    blk_opf_t,  write_flags		)
> include/trace/events/nilfs2.h:207:		    __field_struct(enum req_op, mode)

Perhaps these should be converted to normal types and assigned with
__force. There's no reason to have the value in the ring buffer be of a
__bitwise type.

-- Steve