linux-kernel - [PATCH] x86, kvm: Remove cast obsoleted by set

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Message-Id: <1281122291-14094-1-git-send-email-hpa@zytor.com>
Date:	Fri,  6 Aug 2010 12:18:11 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
	Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: [PATCH] x86, kvm: Remove cast obsoleted by set_64bit() prototype cleanup

KVM ended up having to put a pretty ugly wrapper around set_64bit()
in order to get the type right.  Now set_64bit() takes the expected
u64 type, and this wrapper can be cleaned up.

Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>
Cc: Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
LKML-Reference: <4C5C4E7A.8040603@...nel.org>
---
 arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c |    6 +-----
 1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 5 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
index 0dcc95e..311f6da 100644
--- a/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
+++ b/arch/x86/kvm/mmu.c
@@ -281,11 +281,7 @@ static gfn_t pse36_gfn_delta(u32 gpte)
 
 static void __set_spte(u64 *sptep, u64 spte)
 {
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
-	set_64bit((unsigned long *)sptep, spte);
-#else
-	set_64bit((unsigned long long *)sptep, spte);
-#endif
+	set_64bit(sptep, spte);
 }
 
 static u64 __xchg_spte(u64 *sptep, u64 new_spte)
-- 
1.7.2

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