Re: [PATCH 54/56] x86: Remove void casts

From: Jack Stone
Date: Wed Apr 08 2009 - 10:46:53 EST


Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
>
>> Ingo Molnar wrote:
>>
>>> * Jack Stone <jwjstone@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>> Fixed patch
>>>>
>>>> Thanks,
>>>>
>>>>
>>> Hm, what was fixed?
>>>
>>>
>> I removed casts on pointer arithmetic which probably still needed to be
>> there to do the arithmetic properly.
>>
>
> ... which pretty much proves the point that these patches should not
> go via any "trivial" tree.
>
> Those additions of mmu pointers you did were outright lethal, i
> doubt this stuff could have booted on both 32-bit and 64-bit x86.
>
> Please dont do this. Or if you do, please double check your change
> and double check that the relevant vmlinux disassembly is still bit
> for bit the same.
>

Thats what I meant by fixed - those changes were removed from the patch.

Thanks,

Jack
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