Re: [PATCH 2/2] module: fix building stats for 32-bit targets

Arnd Bergmann
2023-04-17T22:50:07Z

On Tue, Apr 18, 2023, at 00:15, Luis Chamberlain wrote:
> On Tue, Apr 18, 2023 at 12:02:47AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> I have no idea if there is a risk of these variables actually
>> overflowing 'long' on 32-bit machines. If they provably can't, it
>> would be better to do the opposite patch.
>
> I had originally used atomic64_t and added a debugfs knob for it but
> Linus had advised against it because its not a stat we care too much
> on 32-bit and atomic64 is nasty on 32-bit [0].
>
> So I went with atomic_long and the cast becuase we're just reading.
>
> Is there a way to fix this without doing the fully jump? If not oh well.

I've sent a v2 now that does it the other way round, which is
clearly much more efficient. Have only done minimal build testing
so far, but it passes the randconfigs that failed before.

Arnd