linux-kernel - Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi

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Message-ID: <50AB0D27.6090205@zytor.com>
Date:	Mon, 19 Nov 2012 20:55:03 -0800
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Dan Carpenter <dan.carpenter@...cle.com>
CC:	Russ Anderson <rja@....com>, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Jack Steiner <steiner@....com>,
	Dimitri Sivanich <sivanich@....com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, x86@...nel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, kernel-janitors@...r.kernel.org,
	rja@...ricas.sgi.com
Subject: Re: [patch] x86, UV: integer wrap bug in uv_hub_ipi_value()

On 11/19/2012 08:28 PM, Dan Carpenter wrote:
>
> I do feel a little embarrassed that I didn't use "unsigned long"
> consistently.  I just used ulong to make the line a bit shorter, but
> I could redo it with "unsigned long" if you want.
>

Yes, "ulong" is not idiomatic in the Linux kernel.

	-hpa


-- 
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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