From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754603Ab1JQJNR (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:13:17 -0400 Received: from casper.infradead.org ([85.118.1.10]:54090 "EHLO casper.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750938Ab1JQJNQ convert rfc822-to-8bit (ORCPT ); Mon, 17 Oct 2011 05:13:16 -0400 Subject: Re: Linux 3.1-rc9 From: Peter Zijlstra To: Martin Schwidefsky Cc: Linus Torvalds , Simon Kirby , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Jones , Thomas Gleixner , Ingo Molnar Date: Mon, 17 Oct 2011 11:12:51 +0200 In-Reply-To: <20111017095544.6bf76dea@de.ibm.com> References: <20111007070842.GA27555@hostway.ca> <20111007174848.GA11011@hostway.ca> <1318010515.398.8.camel@twins> <20111008005035.GC22843@hostway.ca> <1318060551.8395.0.camel@twins> <20111012213555.GC24461@hostway.ca> <20111013232521.GA5654@hostway.ca> <20111017095544.6bf76dea@de.ibm.com> Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 8BIT X-Mailer: Evolution 3.0.3- Message-ID: <1318842771.6594.30.camel@twins> Mime-Version: 1.0 Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, 2011-10-17 at 09:55 +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote: > > The reason for the cputime_xxx primitives has been my fear that people > ignore the cputime_t type and just use unsigned long (as they always > have). That would break s390 which needs a u64 for its cputime value. > Dunno if we still need it, seems like we got used to using cputime_t. Right, and like mentioned last time this came up, we could possibly make use of sparse to ensure things don't go fail on 32bit s390.