From mboxrd@z Thu Jan  1 00:00:00 1970
From: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 1/4] net: percpufy frequently used vars -- add
 percpu_counter_mod_bh
Date: Wed, 8 Mar 2006 18:32:06 -0800
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Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> wrote:
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> Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org> writes:
> > 
> > x86_64 is signed 32-bit!
> 
> I'll change it. You want signed 64bit?
> 

Well it's all random at present.  Since the API is defined as unsigned I
guess it's be best to make it unsigned for now.  Later, when someone gets
down to making it signed and reviewing all the users they can flip x86_64
to signed along with the rest of the architectures.