Re: [PATCH] powerpc: cputime: fix a compile warning

[Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>]

On Mon, 2016-11-21 at 12:56 +0800, yanjiang.jin@windriver.com wrote:
> From: Yanjiang Jin <yanjiang.jin@windriver.com>
> 
> This patch is to avoid the below warning:
> 
> kernel/sched/cpuacct.c:298:25: warning:
> format '%lld' expects argument of type 'long long int',
> but argument 4 has type 'long unsigned int' [-Wformat=]
> 
> Signed-off-by: Yanjiang Jin <yanjiang.jin@windriver.com>
> ---
>  arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h | 3 ++-
>  1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
> index 4f60db0..4423e97 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/cputime.h
> @@ -228,7 +228,8 @@ static inline cputime_t clock_t_to_cputime(const
> unsigned long clk)
>  	return (__force cputime_t) ct;
>  }
>  
> -#define cputime64_to_clock_t(ct)	cputime_to_clock_t((cputime_t)(ct))
> +#define cputime64_to_clock_t(ct)	\
> +	(__force u64)(cputime_to_clock_t((cputime_t)(ct)))

Why is __force needed?

-Scott