Subject: Re: linux-next: manual merge of the tip tree with the cputime tree

From: Martin Schwidefsky <[email-masked]>
Date: Wed, 7 Dec 2011 12:59:37 +0100

On Wed, 7 Dec 2011 09:35:09 -0200
Glauber Costa <[email-masked]> wrote:

> On 12/07/2011 02:09 AM, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > + 	index = (TASK_NICE(p)>  0) ? CPUTIME_NICE : CPUTIME_USER;
> > +
> >    	/* Add user time to cpustat. */
> > - 	if (TASK_NICE(p)>  0)
> > - 		cpustat->nice += (__force cputime64_t) cputime;
> > - 	else
> > - 		cpustat->user += (__force cputime64_t) cputime;
> >   -	task_group_account_field(p, index, cputime);
> > ++	task_group_account_field(p, index, (__force cputime64_t) cputime);
> 
> 
> I doubt __force cputime64_t is necessary. After these patches, those 
> fields are all u64.

You need the __force keyword whenever a conversion between a cputime[64]_t
and a plain scalar type is done. The cputime[64]_t types are defined with
__nocast so that sparse can find bugs in the usage of cputime.

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   Martin.

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