linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: vmemmap and vmalloc base addressess are usngined longs

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Date:   Thu, 12 Apr 2018 17:28:01 +0300
From:   "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill@...temov.name>
To:     Jiri Kosina <jikos@...nel.org>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "Kirill A. Shutemov" <kirill.shutemov@...ux.intel.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, x86@...nel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/mm: vmemmap and vmalloc base addressess are usngined
 longs

On Thu, Apr 12, 2018 at 02:39:10PM +0200, Jiri Kosina wrote:
> From: Jiri Kosina <jkosina@...e.cz>
> 
> Commits 9b46a051e4 ("x86/mm: Initialize vmemmap_base at boot-time") and 
> a7412546d8 ("x86/mm: Adjust vmalloc base and size at boot-time") lost the 
> type information for __VMALLOC_BASE_L4, __VMALLOC_BASE_L5, 
> __VMEMMAP_BASE_L4 and __VMEMMAP_BASE_L5 constants.
> 
> Let's declare them explicitly unsigned long again.

It is just cosmetics, right? I mean these literals are 'unsigned long'
anyway.

-- 
 Kirill A. Shutemov