Re: Tasklet usage?

[Roland Dreier]

    Pierre> As I was digging through the functions there was one thing
    Pierre> that struck me. The parameter for the tasklet is of type
    Pierre> unsigned long, not void*. Since the parameter in most
    Pierre> cases is a pointer this might cause problems on 64-bit
    Pierre> systems. Or does the kernel do some magic to map kernel
    Pierre> memory in the first 4 GB?

unsigned long will be 64 bits on a 64-bit system.  There are many
places in the Linux kernel where we assume that void * and long are
the same size.

 - Roland
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