Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 19 Jun 2008 18:47:08 +0200 | From | Ingo Molnar <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 1 of 4] mm: add a ptep_modify_prot transaction abstraction |
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* Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 19 Jun 2008, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > > > Below is the commit, it needed a small amount of massaging to apply the > > void * -> unsigned long * change in the x86/bitops topic. > > Well, that's your bug right there. > > The macros very much depended on the pointers being "void *", due to > the pointer arithmetic (which is a gcc extension that we use > extensively - "void *" arithmetic works as if it was a byte pointer).
duh, yeah - of course. Will retry with that fixed :)
Ingo
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