Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 06 Mar 2014 13:57:17 -0500 | From | Rik van Riel <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1/6] cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast |
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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>
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