linux-kernel - Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

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Date:	Tue, 31 Jul 2007 18:20:29 +0200
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de>
Cc:	WANG Cong <xiyou.wangcong@...il.com>,
	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>,
	Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
	jack@...keye.stone.uk.eu.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	trivial@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem.

Greg KH <gregkh@...e.de> writes:

> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:46:19PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote:
>> However, I think using resource_size_t is a bit better than unsigned long,
>> so that we don't need to check the defination of it.
>> 
>> - res->start = (unsigned long)kmalloc(*size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> + res->start = (resource_size_t)kmalloc(*size, GFP_KERNEL);
>> 
>> Is this change OK?
>
> Yes, that is the proper cast to have here.

It will generate a warning when resoure_size_t is 64bit on a 32bit arch.

Andreas.

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