Re: [patch] HWBKPT: Make bp_len type to u64 generic across the arch

[Mahesh Jagannath Salgaonkar]

On 01/31/2010 12:08 AM, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> On Sat, Jan 30, 2010 at 10:25:18AM +0530, Mahesh Salgaonkar wrote:
> > Change 'bp_len' type to __u64 to make it work across the arch.
> > The s390 architecture watch point length can be upto 2^64.
> >
> > reference:
> > 	http://lkml.org/lkml/2010/1/25/212
> >
> > Based on commit 6aa41f8b01301199af6c9febb24f3c1f5a0bc9d5
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Mahesh Salgaonkar<mahesh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> >
> >   include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h |    2 +-
> >   include/linux/perf_event.h    |    6 ++----
> >   kernel/hw_breakpoint.c        |    2 +-
> >   kernel/perf_event.c           |    2 +-
> >   4 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 7 deletions(-)
> >
> >
> > diff --git a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
> > index 41235c9..76e7427 100644
> > --- a/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
> > +++ b/include/linux/hw_breakpoint.h
> > @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static inline int hw_breakpoint_type(struct perf_event *bp)
> >   	return bp->attr.bp_type;
> >   }
> >
> > -static inline int hw_breakpoint_len(struct perf_event *bp)
> > +static inline unsigned long hw_breakpoint_len(struct perf_event *bp)
> >   {
> >   	return bp->attr.bp_len;
> >   }
>
>
>
> This should return a u64, or gcc will warn us about loosing
> informations in 32 bits arch?
Yup, I even thought so, but then I figured out the function 
'hw_breakpoint_addr()' also has same return type for returning 
'attr.bp_addr' and kept the same type to be consistent. We may have to 
fix that also. What do you think?

> >
>
>
> Acked-by: Frederic Weisbecker<fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx>

Thanks for reviewing.
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