From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@oracle.com>
Date: Wed, 21 Nov 2012 07:39:56 +0000
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()
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To: Russ Anderson <rja@sgi.com>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@sgi.com>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>, x86@kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org

On Tue, Nov 20, 2012 at 11:07:25AM -0600, Russ Anderson wrote:
> The issue isn't "ulong" vs "unsigned long".  The issue
> is int is 32 bit and long is 64 bit on x86_64.  Your 
> patch is casting the value as an "unsigned long" (64 bit
> on x86_64) into an int (32 bit).  I don't think that
> was your intent.

Wait what?  I only did int => long casts, not the other way around.

It occured to me to use u64 but this code is only compiled on x86_64
and I wrote my patch to match the surrounding context.

regards,
dan carpenter