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From: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>
To: Alexey Brodkin <Alexey.Brodkin@synopsys.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] atomic{64}_t: Explicitly specify data storage length and alignment
Date: Mon, 9 Jul 2018 16:45:46 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180709144546.GT2476@hirez.programming.kicks-ass.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <6762443004f96d279cba77b7c412163769c930fe.camel@synopsys.com>

On Mon, Jul 09, 2018 at 02:30:41PM +0000, Alexey Brodkin wrote:
> Hm, any thoughts on why it's "u64" for 32-bit x86?

Accident probably. It probably doesn't really matter all that much
because the kernel hard assumes 2s complement, but it is somewhat
inconsistent.

  reply	other threads:[~2018-07-09 14:46 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-07-09 12:47 [PATCH] atomic{64}_t: Explicitly specify data storage length and alignment Alexey Brodkin
2018-07-09 12:55 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-09 13:07 ` Will Deacon
2018-07-09 13:30 ` David Laight
2018-07-09 13:49   ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-07-09 13:35 ` Peter Zijlstra
2018-07-09 14:30   ` Alexey Brodkin
2018-07-09 14:45     ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2018-07-09 14:04 ` Russell King - ARM Linux
2018-07-09 16:25 ` kbuild test robot
2018-07-09 18:05 ` kbuild test robot

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