Re: [patch 07/38] treewide: Consolidate cycles_t

Geert Uytterhoeven
2026-04-16T11:27:48Z

On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 14:19, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org> wrote:
> Most architectures define cycles_t as unsigned long execpt:
>
> - x86 requires it to be 64-bit independent of the 32-bit/64-bit build.
>
> - parisc and mips define it as unsigned int
>
> parisc has no real reason to do so as there are only a few usage sites
> which either expand it to a 64-bit value or utilize only the lower
> 32bits.
>
> mips has no real requirement either.
>
> Move the typedef to types.h and provide a config switch to enforce the
> 64-bit type for x86.
>
> Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>

> arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h | 2 --

Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> # m68k

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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