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Message-ID: <4A8B14AB.3020707@ti.com>
Date:	Tue, 18 Aug 2009 15:52:59 -0500
From:	Jon Hunter <jon-hunter@...com>
To:	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
CC:	linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	John Stultz <johnstul@...ibm.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] Dynamic Tick: Allow 32-bit machines to sleep for
 more than 2.15 seconds


Thomas Gleixner wrote:
> On Tue, 18 Aug 2009, Jon Hunter wrote:
>> diff --git a/include/linux/clockchips.h b/include/linux/clockchips.h
>> index 3a1dbba..8154bc6 100644
>> --- a/include/linux/clockchips.h
>> +++ b/include/linux/clockchips.h
>> @@ -77,8 +77,8 @@ enum clock_event_nofitiers {
>>  struct clock_event_device {
>>  	const char		*name;
>>  	unsigned int		features;
>> -	unsigned long		max_delta_ns;
>> -	unsigned long		min_delta_ns;
>> +	unsigned long long	max_delta_ns;
>> +	unsigned long long	min_delta_ns;
> 
> Can we please use u64 for this ?

John brought this up as well. There was some discussion sometime back 
about this. I did get some feedback that u64 was a different type 
between ppc64 and x86-64 which was causing problems with printk. The 
above variables are also used with printk in the kernel today.

See the following email:
http://marc.info/?l=linux-kernel&m=124041426203283&w=2

I am not sure if this is still the case and safer to stick with 
long-long for now. Let me know your thoughts.

Cheers
Jon








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