linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/2] ResCounter: Use read

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Date:	Sat, 23 Feb 2008 10:59:33 -0800
From:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
To:	"Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com>
Cc:	balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com, xemul@...nvz.org, balbir@...ibm.com,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] ResCounter: Use read_uint in memory controller

On Sat, 23 Feb 2008 06:33:34 -0800 "Paul Menage" <menage@...gle.com> wrote:

> On Thu, Feb 21, 2008 at 8:29 PM, Balbir Singh <balbir@...ux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
> >
> >  Looks good, except for the name uint(), can we make it u64(). Integers are 32
> >  bit on both ILP32 and LP64, but we really read/write 64 bit values.
> 
> Yes, that's true. But read_uint() is more consistent with all the
> other instances in cgroups and subsystems. So if we were to call it
> res_counter_read_u64() I'd also want to rename all the other
> *read_uint functions/fields to *read_u64 too. Can I do that in a
> separate patch?
> 

Sounds sensible to me.
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