From: Andrew Morton ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #62: FILE: mm/filemap.c:1262: +static int page_cache_read(struct file * file, pgoff_t offset) WARNING: line over 80 characters #107: FILE: mm/memory.c:1108: +pte_t * get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptl) ERROR: "foo * bar" should be "foo *bar" #107: FILE: mm/memory.c:1108: +pte_t * get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptl) total: 2 errors, 1 warnings, 182 lines checked Your patch has style problems, please review. If any of these errors are false positives report them to the maintainer, see CHECKPATCH in MAINTAINERS. Please run checkpatch prior to sending patches Cc: Harvey Harrison Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton --- mm/filemap.c | 2 +- mm/memory.c | 3 ++- 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-) diff -puN mm/filemap.c~mm-remove-fastcall-from-mm-checkpatch-fixes mm/filemap.c --- a/mm/filemap.c~mm-remove-fastcall-from-mm-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/mm/filemap.c @@ -1259,7 +1259,7 @@ asmlinkage ssize_t sys_readahead(int fd, * This adds the requested page to the page cache if it isn't already there, * and schedules an I/O to read in its contents from disk. */ -static int page_cache_read(struct file * file, pgoff_t offset) +static int page_cache_read(struct file *file, pgoff_t offset) { struct address_space *mapping = file->f_mapping; struct page *page; diff -puN mm/memory.c~mm-remove-fastcall-from-mm-checkpatch-fixes mm/memory.c --- a/mm/memory.c~mm-remove-fastcall-from-mm-checkpatch-fixes +++ a/mm/memory.c @@ -1107,7 +1107,8 @@ int get_user_pages(struct task_struct *t } EXPORT_SYMBOL(get_user_pages); -pte_t * get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, spinlock_t **ptl) +pte_t *get_locked_pte(struct mm_struct *mm, unsigned long addr, + spinlock_t **ptl) { pgd_t * pgd = pgd_offset(mm, addr); pud_t * pud = pud_alloc(mm, pgd, addr); _