Even though nsec based cputime_t maps to u64, nsecs_to_cputime() must return a cputime_t value. We want to enforce this kind of cast in order to track down buggy manipulations of cputime_t such as direct access of its values under wrong assumptions on its backend type (nsecs, jiffies, etc...) by core code.
Cc: Ingo Molnar <[email protected]> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]> --- include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h b/include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h index 2c9e62c..768294f 100644 --- a/include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h +++ b/include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h @@ -44,7 +44,8 @@ typedef u64 __nocast cputime64_t; /* * Convert cputime <-> nanoseconds */ -#define nsecs_to_cputime(__nsecs) ((__force u64)(__nsecs)) +#define nsecs_to_cputime(__nsecs) \ + (__force cputime_t)(__nsecs) /* -- 1.8.3.1 -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
