On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 11:18:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Wed, May 22, 2019 at 3:23 PM Mark Rutland <mark.rutl...@arm.com> wrote: > > > > Currently architectures return inconsistent types for atomic64 ops. Some > > return > > long (e..g. powerpc), some return long long (e.g. arc), and some return s64 > > (e.g. x86). > > > > This is a bit messy, and causes unnecessary pain (e.g. as values must be > > cast > > before they can be printed [1]). > > > > This series reworks all the atomic64 implementations to use s64 as the base > > type for atomic64_t (as discussed [2]), and to ensure that this type is > > consistently used for parameters and return values in the API, avoiding > > further > > problems in this area. > > > > This series (based on v5.1-rc1) can also be found in my atomics/type-cleanup > > branch [3] on kernel.org. > > Nice cleanup! > > I've provided an explicit Ack for the asm-generic patch if someone wants > to pick up the entire series, but I can also put it all into my asm-generic > tree if you want, after more people have had a chance to take a look.
Thanks! I had assumed that this would go through the tip tree, as previous atomic rework had, but I have no preference as to how this gets merged. I'm not sure what the policy is, so I'll leave it to Peter and Will to say. Mark.
