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Re: [mmotm:master 185/397] mm/nommu.c:1193:8: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast

From:  Andrew Morton <akpm-AT-linux-foundation.org>
To:  Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim-AT-lge.com>
Subject:  Re: [mmotm:master 185/397] mm/nommu.c:1193:8: warning: assignment makes pointer from integer without a cast
Date:  Mon, 1 Dec 2014 15:08:51 -0800
Message-ID:  <20141201150851.019d6a8aeaf269af3f94354a@linux-foundation.org>
Cc:  kbuild test robot <fengguang.wu-AT-intel.com>, kbuild-all-AT-01.org, Johannes Weiner <hannes-AT-cmpxchg.org>, Linux Memory Management List <linux-mm-AT-kvack.org>
Archive‑link:  Article

On Thu, 27 Nov 2014 14:13:12 +0900 Joonsoo Kim <iamjoonsoo.kim@lge.com> wrote:

> @@ -1190,7 +1190,7 @@ static int do_mmap_private(struct vm_area_struct *vma,
>  		kdebug("try to alloc exact %lu pages", total);
>  		base = alloc_pages_exact(len, GFP_KERNEL);
>  	} else {
> -		base = __get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
> +		base = (void *)__get_free_pages(GFP_KERNEL, order);
>  	}

__get_free_pages() is so irritating.  I'm counting 268 calls, at least
172 of which have to typecast the return value.

static inline void *
someone_think_of_a_name_for_this(gfp_t gfp_mask, unsigned int order)
{
	return (void *)__get_free_pages(gfp, order);
}

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