Re: [PATCH v2] mm/hotplug: Verify hotplug memory range

From: Andrew Morton
Date: Wed Aug 14 2013 - 19:45:15 EST


On Wed, 14 Aug 2013 17:34:02 -0600 Toshi Kani <toshi.kani@xxxxxx> wrote:

> > Printing a u64 is problematic. Here you assume that u64 is implemented
> > as unsigned long long. But it can be implemented as unsigned long, by
> > architectures which use include/asm-generic/int-l64.h. Such an
> > architecture will generate a compile warning here, but I can't
> > immediately find a Kconfig combination which will make that happen.
>
> Oh, I see. Should I add the casting below and resend it to you?
>
> (unsigned long long)start, (unsigned long long)size);

I was going to leave it as-is and see if anyone else can find a way of
triggering the warning. But other sites in mm/memory_hotplug.c have
the casts so I went ahead and fixed it.

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