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Date:	Thu, 26 Feb 2015 10:24:30 +0000
From:	Punit Agrawal <punit.agrawal@....com>
To:	Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>
Cc:	Zhang Rui <rui.zhang@...el.com>,
	Eduardo Valentin <edubezval@...il.com>,
	linux-pm@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] thermal: fix the casting issue for long type

Hi Leo,

Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org> writes:

> When enable the thermal on arm64 platform, it will report failure when
> call function *thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device()*.
>
> The failure is caused by casting. If dtb specify the minimum cooling
> state and maximum cooling state as THERMAL_NO_LIMIT, then variables
> "lower" and "upper" equal to 0x0000_0000_ffff_fffff after casting the
> value from "unsigned int" to "unsigned long".
>
> Finally in kernel if check the variables "lower" and "upper", it will
> never equal to (-1UL), or 0xffff_ffff_ffff_fffff.
>
> So change to use "unsigned int" type, this can be compatible for 32 bits
> and 64 bits system.
>
> Signed-off-by: Leo Yan <leo.yan@...aro.org>

There's already a fix for this issue that made it to v3.19 (Commit
id a940cb34fed7). Does that not work for you?

Cheers,
Punit

> ---
>  drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c   | 4 ++--
>  drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c | 6 +++---
>  include/linux/thermal.h        | 2 +-
>  3 files changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c b/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
> index 668fb1b..b50c4e1 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/of-thermal.c
> @@ -49,8 +49,8 @@ struct __thermal_bind_params {
>  	struct device_node *cooling_device;
>  	unsigned int trip_id;
>  	unsigned int usage;
> -	unsigned long min;
> -	unsigned long max;
> +	unsigned int min;
> +	unsigned int max;
>  };
>  
>  /**
> diff --git a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> index 48491d1..04de575 100644
> --- a/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> +++ b/drivers/thermal/thermal_core.c
> @@ -923,7 +923,7 @@ thermal_cooling_device_trip_point_show(struct device *dev,
>  int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>  				     int trip,
>  				     struct thermal_cooling_device *cdev,
> -				     unsigned long upper, unsigned long lower)
> +				     unsigned int upper, unsigned int lower)
>  {
>  	struct thermal_instance *dev;
>  	struct thermal_instance *pos;
> @@ -952,8 +952,8 @@ int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *tz,
>  		return ret;
>  
>  	/* lower default 0, upper default max_state */
> -	lower = lower == THERMAL_NO_LIMIT ? 0 : lower;
> -	upper = upper == THERMAL_NO_LIMIT ? max_state : upper;
> +	lower = lower == (unsigned int)THERMAL_NO_LIMIT ? 0 : lower;
> +	upper = upper == (unsigned int)THERMAL_NO_LIMIT ? max_state : upper;
>  
>  	if (lower > upper || upper > max_state)
>  		return -EINVAL;
> diff --git a/include/linux/thermal.h b/include/linux/thermal.h
> index fc52e30..a2afe04 100644
> --- a/include/linux/thermal.h
> +++ b/include/linux/thermal.h
> @@ -321,7 +321,7 @@ void thermal_zone_device_unregister(struct thermal_zone_device *);
>  
>  int thermal_zone_bind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *, int,
>  				     struct thermal_cooling_device *,
> -				     unsigned long, unsigned long);
> +				     unsigned int, unsigned int);
>  int thermal_zone_unbind_cooling_device(struct thermal_zone_device *, int,
>  				       struct thermal_cooling_device *);
>  void thermal_zone_device_update(struct thermal_zone_device *);
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