Re: [patch 3.5-rc3] mm, mempolicy: fix mbind() to do synchronous migration

[Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>]

On Thu, Jun 21, 2012 at 6:45 PM, Andrew Morton
<akpm@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
>
>> I wonder if I should make sparse warn about any casts to/from enums.
>> They tend to always be wrong.
>
> I think it would be worth trying, see how much fallout there is.  Also
> casts from "enum a" to "enum b".  We've had a few of those,
> unintentionally.

Ugh. We have this all over. Well, at least in multiple places.

Like <linux/personality.h>, which does things like

        PER_LINUX_32BIT =       0x0000 | ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT,

where PER_LINUX_32BIT is one enum, and ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT is a different one.

And things like

        WORK_STRUCT_PENDING     = 1 << WORK_STRUCT_PENDING_BIT,

in <linux/workqueue.h> is similar.

Sure, my quick warning generator gives lots of extraneous warnings,
and it complains about the above kind of "mixing enum with int"
behavior, but the above is a very real example of casting an enum to
an integer. And we *want* it to happen in the above cases.

I'll see what it looks like if I only warn about casting *to* an enum.

             Linus

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