From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1755430AbaIKPEx (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:04:53 -0400 Received: from mga09.intel.com ([134.134.136.24]:42616 "EHLO mga09.intel.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753507AbaIKPEw (ORCPT ); Thu, 11 Sep 2014 11:04:52 -0400 X-ExtLoop1: 1 X-IronPort-AV: E=Sophos;i="5.04,506,1406617200"; d="scan'208";a="601495794" Message-ID: <5411B9BD.2000900@intel.com> Date: Thu, 11 Sep 2014 08:03:25 -0700 From: Dave Hansen User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:24.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/24.6.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Qiaowei Ren , "H. Peter Anvin" , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar CC: x86@kernel.org, linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH v8 08/10] x86, mpx: add prctl commands PR_MPX_REGISTER, PR_MPX_UNREGISTER References: <1410425210-24789-1-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> <1410425210-24789-9-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> In-Reply-To: <1410425210-24789-9-git-send-email-qiaowei.ren@intel.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 09/11/2014 01:46 AM, Qiaowei Ren wrote: > + > + return (void __user *)(unsigned long)(xsave_buf->bndcsr.cfg_reg_u & > + MPX_BNDCFG_ADDR_MASK); > +} I don't think casting a u64 to a ulong, then to a pointer is useful. Just take the '(unsigned long)' out.