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From: Scott Wood <oss@buserror.net>
To: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>,
	yanjiang.jin@windriver.com, benh@kernel.crashing.org,
	paulus@samba.org
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	jinyanjiang@gmail.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] powerpc: cputime: fix a compile warning
Date: Fri, 02 Dec 2016 13:54:49 -0600	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1480708489.3947.3.camel@buserror.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <874m2n7yrf.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au>

On Fri, 2016-12-02 at 15:15 +1100, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> yanjiang.jin@windriver.com writes:
> 
> > 
> > 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)))
> Given the name of the function is "cputime64 to clock_t", surely we
> should be returning a clock_t ?

That was my initial reaction but it seems that this function has meant "return
a u64 that is otherwise like clock_t" since before the beginning of git
history.  Both generic implementations return u64, including
jiffies_64_to_clock_t which does so explicitly.

-Scott

      parent reply	other threads:[~2016-12-02 19:55 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 9+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-21  4:56 [PATCH] powerpc: cputime: fix a compile warning yanjiang.jin
2016-11-30 14:40 ` Scott Wood
2016-12-01  5:04   ` yjin
2016-12-02  4:15 ` Michael Ellerman
2016-12-02  4:22   ` Balbir Singh
2016-12-02  4:35     ` yjin
2016-12-02  5:15       ` Pan Xinhui
2016-12-02  5:17         ` yjin
2016-12-02 19:54   ` Scott Wood [this message]

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