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SubjectRe: [PATCH 1/6] cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast
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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