Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 1 Aug 2007 14:02:29 +1000 | From | Paul Mackerras <> | Subject | Re: [Patch 09/16] Remove unnecessary kmalloc casts in the pci subsystem. |
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Greg KH writes:
> On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 06:20:29PM +0200, Andreas Schwab wrote: > > Greg KH <gregkh@suse.de> writes: > > > > > On Tue, Jul 31, 2007 at 10:46:19PM +0800, WANG Cong wrote: > > >> However, I think using resource_size_t is a bit better than unsigned long, > > >> so that we don't need to check the defination of it. > > >> > > >> - res->start = (unsigned long)kmalloc(*size, GFP_KERNEL); > > >> + res->start = (resource_size_t)kmalloc(*size, GFP_KERNEL); > > >> > > >> Is this change OK? > > > > > > Yes, that is the proper cast to have here. > > > > It will generate a warning when resoure_size_t is 64bit on a 32bit arch. > > How? And if so, what should the proper cast be?
You'll get a "cast from pointer to different-sized integer" type of warning. The proper cast is unsigned long, just like the code is without this patch. :)
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