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Message-ID: <20080220100933.GA20162@wavehammer.waldi.eu.org>
Date:	Wed, 20 Feb 2008 11:09:33 +0100
From:	Bastian Blank <bastian@...di.eu.org>
To:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [patch 07/13] Initialize per cpu lowcores on cpu hotplug.

On Wed, Feb 20, 2008 at 10:45:52AM +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> -	copy_page(lowcore, &S390_lowcore);
> +	memcpy(lowcore, &S390_lowcore, 512);

Okay

>  	memset((void *)lowcore + 512, 0, sizeof(*lowcore) - 512);

Not completely okay. void pointer are not allowed in arithmetic. gcc
handles void * as char * in this case, but I think it should usualy be
avoided.

Bastian

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