linux-kernel - Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH linux v2] xen: change the type of xen_vcpu_id to uint32

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Message-ID: <57BDDCC9.8070908@citrix.com>
Date:   Wed, 24 Aug 2016 18:43:37 +0100
From:   David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>
To:     Vitaly Kuznetsov <vkuznets@...hat.com>,
        <xen-devel@...ts.xenproject.org>
CC:     Juergen Gross <jgross@...e.com>,
        Stefano Stabellini <sstabellini@...nel.org>,
        <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Julien Grall <julien.grall@....com>,
        David Vrabel <david.vrabel@...rix.com>,
        "Boris Ostrovsky" <boris.ostrovsky@...cle.com>
Subject: Re: [Xen-devel] [PATCH linux v2] xen: change the type of xen_vcpu_id
 to uint32_t

On 29/07/16 10:06, Vitaly Kuznetsov wrote:
> We pass xen_vcpu_id mapping information to hypercalls which require
> uint32_t type so it would be cleaner to have it as uint32_t. The
> initializer to -1 can be dropped as we always do the mapping before using
> it and we never check the 'not set' value anyway.

Applied to for-linus-4.8b, thanks.

David