linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 01/18] arm64: consistently use unsigned long for thread flags

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Date:   Mon, 14 May 2018 10:57:30 +0100
From:   Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, marc.zyngier@....com,
        catalin.marinas@....com, will.deacon@....com,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux@...inikbrodowski.net,
        james.morse@....com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk,
        linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 01/18] arm64: consistently use unsigned long for thread
 flags

On Mon, May 14, 2018 at 10:46:23AM +0100, Mark Rutland wrote:
> In do_notify_resume, we manipulate thread_flags as a 32-bit unsigned
> int, whereas thread_info::flags is a 64-bit unsigned long, and elsewhere
> (e.g. in the entry assembly) we manipulate the flags as a 64-bit
> quantity.
> 
> For consistency, and to avoid problems if we end up with more than 32
> flags, let's make do_notify_resume take the flags as a 64-bit unsigned
> long.

Looks sensible.

Reviewed-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@....com>

> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
> ---
>  arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c | 2 +-
>  1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
> 
> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> index 154b7d30145d..8e624fec4707 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -896,7 +896,7 @@ static void do_signal(struct pt_regs *regs)
>  }
>  
>  asmlinkage void do_notify_resume(struct pt_regs *regs,
> -				 unsigned int thread_flags)
> +				 unsigned long thread_flags)
>  {
>  	/*
>  	 * The assembly code enters us with IRQs off, but it hasn't
> -- 
> 2.11.0
> 
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