Hi Andrew, After merging the akpm-current tree, today's linux-next build (powerpc ppc64_defconfig) produced this warning: In file included from arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu-hash64.h:23:0, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/mmu.h:197, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/lppaca.h:36, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/paca.h:20, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/hw_irq.h:41, from arch/powerpc/include/asm/irqflags.h:11, from include/linux/irqflags.h:15, from include/linux/spinlock.h:53, from include/linux/mmzone.h:7, from include/linux/gfp.h:5, from include/linux/mm.h:9, from include/linux/mman.h:4, from mm/madvise.c:8: mm/madvise.c: In function 'swapin_walk_pte_entry': arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h:183:3: warning: statement with no effect [-Wunused-value] (((pte_t *) pmd_page_vaddr(*(dir))) + (((addr) >> PAGE_SHIFT) & (PTRS_PER_PTE - 1))) ^ arch/powerpc/include/asm/pgtable-ppc64.h:185:34: note: in expansion of macro 'pte_offset_kernel' #define pte_offset_map(dir,addr) pte_offset_kernel((dir), (addr)) ^ mm/madvise.c:161:2: note: in expansion of macro 'pte_offset_map' pte_offset_map(walk->pmd, start & PMD_MASK); ^ mm/madvise.c:145:9: warning: unused variable 'orig_pte' [-Wunused-variable] pte_t *orig_pte = pte - ((start & (PMD_SIZE - 1)) >> PAGE_SHIFT); ^ Introduced by commit 17336ae3d58a ("madvise: cleanup swapin_walk_pmd_entry()") -- Cheers, Stephen Rothwell sfr@canb.auug.org.au