Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 12 Mar 2014 03:14:56 +0100 | From | Frederic Weisbecker <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast |
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On Thu, Mar 06, 2014 at 01:57:17PM -0500, Rik van Riel wrote: > On 03/06/2014 12:56 PM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote: > >Even though nsec based cputime_t maps to u64, nsecs_to_cputime() must > >return a cputime_t value. We want to enforce this kind of cast in order > >to track down buggy manipulations of cputime_t such as direct access > >of its values under wrong assumptions on its backend type (nsecs, > >jiffies, etc...) by core code. > > > >Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> > >Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com> > >Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org> > >Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de> > >Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com> > > Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com> >
Thanks a lot for your acks. I added them for the pull request. Unfortunately git-send-email ignored them for the Cc (it seems to depend on the version).
But the pull request can be found there: http://marc.info/?i=1394590202-772-1-git-send-email-fweisbec%40gmail.com
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