On Tue, 2015-07-28 at 07:44 +0200, Heinrich Schuchardt wrote: > Hello David, > > >> A futex is in essence a 32-bit user-space address. > I know what a 32 bit integer is. > I am not aware of 32 bit addresses on my 64 bit operating system. Well I am referring to in the context of a user-space address, such as a 32-bit lock ('int'), but yes, my text is misleading. In fact we obviously need to cast to the word size for doing gup_fast, among other tasks. Thanks, Davidlohr -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-man" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html