Date: Sat, 9 Feb 2008 16:21:53 -0800 (PST)
From: Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com>
To: Vegard Nossum <vegard.nossum@gmail.com>
cc: Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
       Pekka Enberg <penberg@cs.helsinki.fi>,
       Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@polymtl.ca>
Subject: Re: mm/slub.c warnings
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On Sat, 9 Feb 2008, Vegard Nossum wrote:

> Hi,
> 
> I get these warnings when compiling mm/slub.c in linux-2.6.git:
> 
> mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_alloc':
> mm/slub.c:1637: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> mm/slub.c:1637: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> mm/slub.c: In function 'slab_free':
> mm/slub.c:1796: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> mm/slub.c:1796: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
> 
> The actual lines are calls to cmpxchg_local(). This is probably
> because I'm compiling with M386. I'm guessing the source of the
> warnings is in include/asm-x86/cmpxchg_32.h, lines 283 and 286. Config
> attached.

Hmmm.. That cmpxchg local needs to be fixed? Mathieu?


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