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charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: Organization: Intel Finland Oy - BIC 0357606-4 - c/o Alberga Business Park, 6 krs, Bertel Jungin Aukio 5, 02600 Espoo X-Rspamd-Server: rspam09 X-Rspamd-Queue-Id: 9705C20009 X-Stat-Signature: j1s3mkgr68fxzgo71qh8tiktrjeuptwq X-Rspam-User: X-HE-Tag: 1769155888-826889 X-HE-Meta: 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 PJ5KCJod 78Jfjrxv5Oal/ABphb94YzZtcGHjl+xvkMLoxHQyDoK4f8YuNXJbodwKnQW+FMoqa917qBlpBxxwV6/YiiHFN0ROFU25aHo0O+d90PCE5QLvcw/v7PermsNWUJcD+FnFMZziCcUuySN5U9nbRsittbU/wu5aW+e0cWlglui59pa0Wj41jIAgNr79DtA2G7zp6mAp5/GwogkF18n/6BtJ0lVraiAwtb+iR1t7lzKn/Fza+LqHYlQPYkp6tFBHzsyhpVoRzAtm1WuaUHUW2q9KydURvPR1s5VvkPNEqS9zJAnpQzBODyuhK61BD7V2sjHQiej3eZXlMgdYAjVk= X-Bogosity: Ham, tests=bogofilter, spamicity=0.000000, version=1.2.4 Sender: owner-linux-mm@kvack.org Precedence: bulk X-Loop: owner-majordomo@kvack.org List-ID: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: On Fri, Jan 23, 2026 at 09:01:04AM +0100, Vincent Mailhol wrote: > Adding the relevant parties to the discussion: > > +To: Al Viro > +To: Chris Li > > On 23/01/2026 at 02:25, Philip Li wrote: > > On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 04:26:44PM +0200, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > >> On Thu, Jan 22, 2026 at 10:33:37AM +0000, David Laight wrote: > >>> On Thu, 22 Jan 2026 12:41:22 +0800 > >>> kernel test robot wrote: > >> > >>>> sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) > >>>> kernel/kthread.c: note: in included file (through include/linux/bitmap.h, include/linux/cpumask.h, arch/mips/include/asm/processor.h, ...): > >>>>>> include/linux/find.h:209:45: sparse: sparse: Variable length array is used. > >>> > >>> Can we stop sparse complaining about sizeof(VLA) ? > >> > >> First of all, the LKP should install the fork of sparse by Al Viro. That will > >> fix tons of warnings that are related to modules and speed up the process > >> itself. > > > > Thanks Andy, i will switch to the repo from Al Viro for sparse. > > Al Viro's fork just adds 8 commit on top of the upstream sparse repo. > Wouldn't it be possible to just merge those? Ideally yes, but you also should kick the distro's asses to update it, and the sparse should bump its version... > That would be much less confusing. Seems Al become a sparse maintainer de facto :-) -- With Best Regards, Andy Shevchenko