Re: warning in scheduler

From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt
Date: Mon Jul 28 2008 - 17:22:55 EST


On Mon, 2008-07-28 at 12:39 -0600, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Mon, Jul 28, 2008 at 08:40:22PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> > I tend to agree. I might look into doing it for powerpc around rc3 or
> > so, when things have settled a bit.
>
> It'd be nice if allmodconfig even compiled:
>
> drivers/char/pcmcia/ipwireless/hardware.c:571: error: invalid use of undefined type 'struct ipw_network'
>
> Not to mention the qla_attr patch:
>
> +#include <linux/delay.h>
>
> There's probably others, I just haven't got far enough in the
> compilation process yet.

Yup, it's been a pretty bad merge window (at least it's my impression as
my first one as maintainer), mostly fixing compile bugs all the time.

> But I am seeing lots of warnings _without_ the patch applied:
>
> fs/omfs/inode.c: In function 'omfs_fill_super':
> fs/omfs/inode.c:495: warning: format '%llx' expects type 'long long
> unsigned int', but argument 2 has type 'u64'
> fs/proc/base.c: In function 'do_io_accounting':
> fs/proc/base.c:2429: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long
> unsigned int', but argument 3 has type 'u64'
> fs/ubifs/dir.c: In function 'ubifs_readdir':
> fs/ubifs/dir.c:437: warning: format '%llu' expects type 'long long
> unsigned int', but argument 5 has type '__le64'
>
> (other warnings snipped for brevity).

I have a handful on powerpc too.

BTW. I'm looking at adding a %pR to print a struct resource (or maybe
a %pr for a resource_size_t and %pR for the whole resource). That would
help with the whole business of the thing being either 32 or 64 bits.

Ben.


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