linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] lib: Add strongly typed 64bit int

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Date:   Tue, 19 Dec 2017 17:12:45 +0100
From:   Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
To:     Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>
Cc:     Crt Mori <cmo@...exis.com>, Jonathan Cameron <jic23@...nel.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
        Ian Abbott <abbotti@....co.uk>,
        Larry Finger <Larry.Finger@...inger.net>,
        Niklas Soderlund <niklas.soderlund+renesas@...natech.se>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Krzysztof Kozlowski <krzk@...nel.org>,
        Masahiro Yamada <yamada.masahiro@...ionext.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-iio@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v7 1/3] lib: Add strongly typed 64bit int_sqrt

On Tue, Dec 19, 2017 at 08:09:53AM -0800, Joe Perches wrote:
> 
> I suspect you need to define this as:
> 
> #define int_sqrt64(x) ((u32)int_sqrt(x))

What's wrong with using C ?

static inline u32 int_sqrt64(u64 x)
{
	return int_sqrt(x);
}