linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 03/18] locking/atomic: generic: use s64 for atomic64

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Date:   Wed, 22 May 2019 23:16:04 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Cc:     Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 03/18] locking/atomic: generic: use s64 for atomic64

On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 3:23 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com> wrote:
>
> As a step towards making the atomic64 API use consistent types treewide,
> let's have the generic atomic64 implementation use s64 as the underlying
> type for atomic64_t, rather than long long, matching the generated
> headers.
>
> Otherwise, there should be no functional change as a result of this
> patch.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>