Commit-ID: 6ef672ad933956dc1335e67d852896a9677b9a1f Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/6ef672ad933956dc1335e67d852896a9677b9a1f Author: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> AuthorDate: Wed, 5 Mar 2014 15:33:18 +0100 Committer: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> CommitDate: Wed, 12 Mar 2014 02:03:55 +0100 cputime: Fix nsecs_to_cputime() return type cast 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 <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@xxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <riel@xxxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@xxxxxxxxx> --- 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) /* -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-tip-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html