linux-kernel - Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

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Message-ID: <1318842771.6594.30.camel@twins>
Date:	Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:51 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Simon Kirby <sim@...tway.ca>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Dave Jones <davej@...hat.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9

On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 09:55 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> 
> The reason for the cputime_xxx primitives has been my fear that people
> ignore the cputime_t type and just use unsigned long (as they always
> have). That would break s390 which needs a u64 for its cputime value.
> Dunno if we still need it, seems like we got used to using cputime_t. 

Right, and like mentioned last time this came up, we could possibly make
use of sparse to ensure things don't go fail on 32bit s390.
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