linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: e820.h fix various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c

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Message-Id: <1237753458.5417.9.camel@ht.satnam>
Date:	Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:54:18 +0530
From:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
To:	Sam Ravnborg <sam@...nborg.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>, x86 maintainers <x86@...nel.org>,
	Rusty Russell <rusty@...tcorp.com.au>,
	Yinghai Lu <yinghai@...nel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH -tip] x86: e820.h fix various signedness issues in
 setup.c and e820.c

On Sun, 2009-03-22 at 21:09 +0100, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> >  
> >  struct e820map {
> > -	__u32 nr_map;
> > +	int nr_map;
> >  	struct e820entry map[E820_X_MAX];
> >  };
> 
> but that header is exported so use of plain int looks wrong.
> 

From: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
Date: Mon, 23 Mar 2009 01:52:15 +0530
Subject: [PATCH] x86: e820.h fix various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c

Impact: cleanup

This fixed various signedness issues in setup.c and e820.c:
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:455:53: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:455:53:    expected int *pnr_map
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:455:53:    got unsigned int extern [toplevel] *<noident>
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:639:53: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:639:53:    expected int *pnr_map
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:639:53:    got unsigned int extern [toplevel] *<noident>
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:820:54: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:820:54:    expected int *pnr_map
arch/x86/kernel/setup.c:820:54:    got unsigned int extern [toplevel] *<noident>

arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:670:53: warning: incorrect type in argument 3 (different signedness)
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:670:53:    expected int *pnr_map
arch/x86/kernel/e820.c:670:53:    got unsigned int [toplevel] *<noident>

Signed-off-by: Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinderrajput@...il.com>
---
 arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h |    2 +-
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
index 00d41ce..991ac17 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/e820.h
@@ -57,7 +57,7 @@ struct e820entry {
 } __attribute__((packed));
 
 struct e820map {
-	__u32 nr_map;
+	__s32 nr_map;
 	struct e820entry map[E820_X_MAX];
 };
 
-- 
1.6.0.6



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