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From: Matthew Wilcox <willy@infradead.org>
To: WangYuli <wangyuli@uniontech.com>
Cc: akpm@linux-foundation.org, linux-mm@kvack.org,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, yuzhao@google.com,
	stevensd@chromium.org, kaleshsingh@google.com,
	zhanjun@uniontech.com, niecheng1@uniontech.com,
	guanwentao@uniontech.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm: vmscan: Avoid signedness error for GCC 5.4
Date: Tue, 6 May 2025 17:22:51 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <aBo3W5HNMxLdtV2p@casper.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <85050791B887DC13+20250506160238.799984-1-wangyuli@uniontech.com>

On Wed, May 07, 2025 at 12:02:38AM +0800, WangYuli wrote:
> To the compiler, (MAX_NR_TIERS - 1) (i.e., (4U - 1)) is unsigned,
> whereas tier is a signed integer.
> 
> GCC 5.4 does not permit the minimum operation on such
> type-inconsistent operands.

1. This has nothing to do with the compiler version; the type-checking
is built into min().
2. We have min_t for a reason
3. Why is a signed min the right answer instead of an unsigned min?


  reply	other threads:[~2025-05-06 16:23 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2025-05-06 16:02 WangYuli
2025-05-06 16:22 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2025-05-07  2:55   ` WangYuli
2025-05-07 20:46     ` David Laight
2025-05-07 12:06   ` David Laight
2025-05-06 23:24 ` Andrew Morton
2025-05-07  4:06   ` WangYuli
2025-05-07 18:07     ` Andrew Morton
2025-05-07 20:49       ` Matthew Wilcox
2025-05-10 10:24     ` David Laight
2025-05-15 15:11       ` WangYuli

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