linux-kernel - Re: [RFC PATCH] Trace: use unsigned long long in trace print frames

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Date:	Fri, 01 Apr 2011 09:49:22 -0400
From:	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@...dmis.org>
To:	liubo <liubo2009@...fujitsu.com>
Cc:	Linux Btrfs <linux-btrfs@...r.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Chris Mason <chris.mason@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH] Trace: use unsigned long long in trace print frames

On Fri, 2011-04-01 at 14:42 +0800, liubo wrote:
> While adding tracepoint for btrfs, I got a problem:
> 
> btrfs uses some macros with "ULL" type, but tracepoint's macros,
> __print_[flags,symbols](), only have "unsigned long", so on 32bit box
> there will be 64->32 truncate WARNINGs when compiling.
> 
> Here I'm inclined to make the replacement to clear those WARNINGs.

Hmm, I don't like this. unsigned long is a natural word for
architectures, I don't want to have 32 bit suffer because one user is
doing something with ULL.

A better solution is to add a trace_print_flags_u64 or something, that
can be used for cases that u64 is needed. For archs were sizeof(long) ==
sizeof(u64) we can have the two macros/structs be the same.

-- Steve


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