From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S937425AbWLDV74 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:59:56 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S937423AbWLDV74 (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:59:56 -0500 Received: from mx2.mail.elte.hu ([157.181.151.9]:57802 "EHLO mx2.mail.elte.hu" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S937427AbWLDV7z (ORCPT ); Mon, 4 Dec 2006 16:59:55 -0500 Date: Mon, 4 Dec 2006 22:58:40 +0100 From: Ingo Molnar To: Roman Zippel Cc: Sergei Shtylyov , linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dwalker@mvista.com Subject: Re: [PATCH] 2.6.18-rt7: fix more issues with 32-bit cycles_t in latency_trace.c (take 3) Message-ID: <20061204215840.GA23604@elte.hu> References: <200611132252.58818.sshtylyov@ru.mvista.com> <4574149B.5070602@ru.mvista.com> <20061204153949.GA9350@elte.hu> <200612042256.51823.zippel@linux-m68k.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200612042256.51823.zippel@linux-m68k.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.2i X-ELTE-VirusStatus: clean X-ELTE-SpamScore: 0.0 X-ELTE-SpamLevel: X-ELTE-SpamCheck: no X-ELTE-SpamVersion: ELTE 2.0 X-ELTE-SpamCheck-Details: score=0.0 required=5.9 tests=none autolearn=no SpamAssassin version=3.0.3 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org * Roman Zippel wrote: > While I'm not against this patch, but on m68k I prefer a 32bit cycle > type (however it's called), so it doesn't solve the original problem. i havent changed the cycles_t type - it's still 32-bit. I agree with you that we dont want to bloat 32-bit arch-level code by artificially forcing everyone to a 64-bit cycles_t. Ingo