linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 002 of 6] Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing rq_for_each

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Message-ID: <alpine.LFD.0.999.0708182016000.29105@enigma.security.iitk.ac.in>
Date:	Sat, 18 Aug 2007 20:18:29 +0530 (IST)
From:	Satyam Sharma <satyam@...radead.org>
To:	Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@...putergmbh.de>
cc:	Geert Uytterhoeven <Geert.Uytterhoeven@...ycom.com>,
	NeilBrown <neilb@...e.de>, Jens Axboe <jens.axboe@...cle.com>,
	Linux Kernel Development <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Tejun Heo <htejun@...il.com>,
	Cell Broadband Engine OSS Development 
	<cbe-oss-dev@...abs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 002 of 6] Introduce rq_for_each_segment replacing
 rq_for_each_bio



On Sat, 18 Aug 2007, Jan Engelhardt wrote:

> On Aug 18 2007 20:07, Satyam Sharma wrote:
> >On Fri, 17 Aug 2007, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >
> >> On Thu, 16 Aug 2007, NeilBrown wrote:
> >> [...]
> >> >  		dev_dbg(&dev->sbd.core,
> >> >  			"%s:%u: bio %u: %u segs %u sectors from %lu\n",
> >> > -			__func__, __LINE__, i, bio_segments(bio),
> >> > -			bio_sectors(bio), sector);
> >> > -		bio_for_each_segment(bvec, bio, j) {
> >> > +			__func__, __LINE__, i, bio_segments(iter.bio),
> >> > +			bio_sectors(iter.bio),
> >> > +			(unsigned long)iter.bio->bi_sector);
> >>                         ^^^^^^^^^^^^^^^
> >> Superfluous cast: PS3 is 64-bit only, and casts are evil.
> 
> bi_sector is sector_t. The cast is ok, because printf will warn, and rightfully
> so since sector_t may just change its shape underneath. It would not be so much
> of a problem if printf() was not a varargs function, but it is, and hence,
> passing an object bigger than the format specifier can make problems.

Oh yeah, that's why the _cast_ _is_ needed in the first place, by the way.
I was mentioning why the cast itself should be (unsigned long long) otoh.
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