Subject: Re: Warning from ring buffer code (Was: Re: linux-next: tip tree build warning)

From: Ingo Molnar <[email-masked]>
Date: Sat, 12 Sep 2009 09:39:06 +0200

* Stephen Rothwell <[email-masked]> wrote:

> Hi Steve,
> 
> On Tue, 04 Aug 2009 12:24:49 -0400 Steven Rostedt <[email-masked]> wrote:
> >
> > On Tue, 2009-08-04 at 16:16 +1000, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > > 
> > > Today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) produced these warnings:
> > > 
> > > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_head_page_set':
> > > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:704: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:704: warning: initialization makes pointer from integer without a cast
> > > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c: In function 'rb_head_page_replace':
> > > kernel/trace/ring_buffer.c:797: warning: initialization makes integer from pointer without a cast
> > > 
> > > Introduced by commit 77ae365eca895061c8bf2b2e3ae1d9ea62869739
> > > ("ring-buffer: make lockless").
> > 
> > Thanks, I'll take a look at it.
> 
> Now that this is in Linus' tree, can we have a fix for the waning, 
> please?

The first warning got fixed 1.5 months ago - the second one at line 
797 is still there but harmless - you can ignore it for now, it will 
be fixed.

	Ingo