Even though it is never executed, gcc wants to warn for casting from
a large integer to a pointer. Furthermore, using a variable with
__typeof__() doesn't work because __typeof__ retains storage
specifiers (const, restrict, volatile).
However, we can declare a bitfield using sizeof(), which is legal
because sizeof() is a constant expression. This quiets the warning,
although the code generated isn't 100% identical from the baseline
before 96477b4 x86-32: Add support for 64bit get_user():
[x86-mb is baseline, x86-mm is this commit]
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Cc: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: Ville Syrjälä <ville.syrjala@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>
Cc: Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20130209110031.GA17833@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>
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