linux-kernel - Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler changes for v3.3

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Message-ID: <m2boqg4t7a.fsf@igel.home>
Date:	Fri, 06 Jan 2012 18:49:29 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...ux-m68k.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	Mike Galbraith <efault@....de>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] scheduler changes for v3.3

Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org> writes:

> And by "clashes badly", I mean it. The sparse cleanups added a lot of
> casts between the types, which means that the mindless
>
>     +#define usecs_to_cputime64(us)         usecs_to_cputime(us)
>
> introduced by that commit 34845636a184 is now likely *wrong*, because
> "usecs_to_cputime()" now explicitly casts to a non-64-bit cputime_t.

Both s390 and powerpc define cputime_t and cputime64_t as the same
types, so this is ok.

Andreas.

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