Re: [-mm PATCH] Memory controller improve user interface (v3)

[Paul Menage]

On 9/3/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Paul Menage wrote:
> > On 9/2/07, Balbir Singh <balbir@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >> -       s += sprintf(s, "%lu\n", *val);
> >> +       if (read_strategy)
> >> +               s += read_strategy(*val, s);
> >> +       else
> >> +               s += sprintf(s, "%lu\n", *val);
> >
> > This would be better as %llu
> >
>
> Hi, Paul,
>
> This does not need fixing, since the other counters like failcnt are
> still unsigned long
>

But val is an unsigned long long*. So printing *val with %lu will
break (at least a warning, and maybe corruption if you had other
parameters) on 32-bit archs.

Paul
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