Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755737AbZCEXFG (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:05:06 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1754346AbZCEXEx (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:04:53 -0500 Received: from mail-fx0-f164.google.com ([209.85.220.164]:42158 "EHLO mail-fx0-f164.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754294AbZCEXEw convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Thu, 5 Mar 2009 18:04:52 -0500 MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: <20090305144210.e40ef501.akpm@linux-foundation.org> References: <20090305190954.30062.44759.stgit@f10box.hanneseder.net> <20090305191839.30062.91081.stgit@f10box.hanneseder.net> <20090305144210.e40ef501.akpm@linux-foundation.org> Date: Fri, 6 Mar 2009 00:04:49 +0100 Message-ID: <154e089b0903051504v451f2421jae561c58984946ad@mail.gmail.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 15/15] NULL noise: mm/memcontrol.c From: Hannes Eder To: Andrew Morton Cc: trivial@kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 1730 Lines: 42 On Thu, Mar 5, 2009 at 11:42 PM, Andrew Morton wrote: > On Thu, 05 Mar 2009 20:18:44 +0100 > Hannes Eder wrote: > >> Fix this sparse warning: >> ? mm/memcontrol.c:1637:32: warning: Using plain integer as NULL pointer >> >> Signed-off-by: Hannes Eder >> Acked-by: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki >> --- >> v2: other subject, as suggested by Al Viro >> >> ?mm/memcontrol.c | ? ?2 +- >> ?1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-) >> >> diff --git a/mm/memcontrol.c b/mm/memcontrol.c >> index 8e4be9c..09d6650 100644 >> --- a/mm/memcontrol.c >> +++ b/mm/memcontrol.c >> @@ -1634,7 +1634,7 @@ static int mem_cgroup_force_empty_list(struct mem_cgroup *mem, >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? pc = list_entry(list->prev, struct page_cgroup, lru); >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? if (busy == pc) { >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? list_move(&pc->lru, list); >> - ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? busy = 0; >> + ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? busy = NULL; >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? spin_unlock_irqrestore(&zone->lru_lock, flags); >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? ? continue; >> ? ? ? ? ? ? ? } > > I have to say that I wish sparse didn't do this. ?Initialising a > pointer with literal zero is perfectly clear and is idiomatic C. We could turn it off with '-Wno-non-pointer-null', but then it is not reported in other might useful cases either. Well, it's really a minor thing, but fixing it, isn't a big deal either. Or is there any drawback that I am not aware of? -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/