On Wed, Mar 1, 2023, at 16:19, Matt Evans wrote: >> On 26 Feb 2023, at 10:13, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote: > > Proposed patch LGTM, but one query: are the casts in > arch_[cmp]xchg()’s args necessary? The new masks should deal with the > issue (and consistency would imply same for all other users of > arch_cmpxchg(), not ideal). I don't think they are necessary, but I'd like to stay on the safe side here since there are so many different implementations of arch_cmpxchg() across architectures that it's likely that I missed one that has a similar but, or that another one will get added in the future. > FWIW (including the casts in atomic.h, if you prefer): > > Reviewed-by: Matt Evans <mev@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Thanks! Arnd