On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 11:43:33PM -0600, Kumar Gala wrote:
> On ppc the compiler gripes about:
> 
> kernel/kprobes.c: In function 'collect_garbage_slots':
> kernel/kprobes.c:215: warning: comparison is always false due to limited 
> range of data type
> 
> The compiler ends up optimizing away the test since char's are unsigned on 
> ppc.

Kumar,

Masami fixed this last week:

http://marc.theaimsgroup.com/?l=linux-kernel&m=116968723823366&w=2

Patch currently in -mm.

Thanks,
Ananth

> 
> Signed-off-by: Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]>
> 
> ---
> commit 1ee2dc5300b1c454f92eeea82da300f72db1b26f
> tree c73cdacb43e154292708d967e11b1cbf7ab4904f
> parent c0d4d573feed199b16094c072e7cb07afb01c598
> author Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:38:11 
> -0600
> committer Kumar Gala <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> Mon, 29 Jan 2007 23:38:11 
> -0600
> 
>  kernel/kprobes.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/kernel/kprobes.c b/kernel/kprobes.c
> index 17ec4af..514276f 100644
> --- a/kernel/kprobes.c
> +++ b/kernel/kprobes.c
> @@ -212,7 +212,7 @@ static int __kprobes collect_garbage_slots(void)
>                       continue;
>               kip->ngarbage = 0;      /* we will collect all garbages */
>               for (i = 0; i < INSNS_PER_PAGE; i++) {
> -                     if (kip->slot_used[i] == -1 &&
> +                     if (kip->slot_used[i] == (char)-1 &&
>                           collect_one_slot(kip, i))
>                               break;
>               }
-
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