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Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access warning

From Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org>
Newsgroups linux.kernel
Subject Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access warning
Date 2017-05-10 11:30 +0200
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On Wed 10-05-17 01:46:03, Nick Desaulniers wrote:
> > You can add
> 
> Something that's not clear to me when advised to add, should I be
> uploading a v3 with your acked by? I think I got that wrong the last
> time I asked (which was my first patch to Linux).

If there are no further changes to the patch/changelog then it is not
necessary. The maintainer usually just grabs ackes and reviewed-bys
from the list.

> > But I still do not understand which part of the code is undefined and
> > why.
> 
> It's not immediately clear to me either, but it's super later here...

I would really like to understand that...
 
> >  is this a bug in -Wunsequenced in Clang
> 
> Possibly, I think I already found one earlier tonight.
> 
> https://bugs.llvm.org/show_bug.cgi?id=32985

this seems unrelated. I would try to report this and clarify in the llvm
bugzilla.

> Tomorrow, I'll try to cut down a test case to see if this is indeed a
> compiler bug.  Would you like me to change the commit message to call
> this just a simple clean up, in the meantime?

I would go with the following wording.
"
Clang and its -Wunsequenced emits a warning
(PUT THE FULL WARNING HERE).

While it is not clear to me whether the initialization code violates the
specification (6.7.8 par 19 (ISO/IEC 9899) looks it disagrees) the code
is quite confusing and worth cleaning up anyway. Fix this by reusing
sc.gfp_mask rather than the updated input gfp_mask parameter.
"
-- 
Michal Hocko
SUSE Labs

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[PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access warning Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 09:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access  warning Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-10 09:20 +0200
    [Patch v2] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access warning Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 10:30 +0200
      Re: [Patch v2] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access  warning Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-10 10:40 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access  warning Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access  warning Michal Hocko <mhocko@kernel.org> - 2017-05-10 11:30 +0200
        [Patch v3] mm/vmscan: fix unsequenced modification and access warning Nick Desaulniers <nick.desaulniers@gmail.com> - 2017-05-10 17:50 +0200

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