The patch titled include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit-fix has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit-fix.patch Before you just go and hit "reply", please: a) Consider who else should be cc'ed b) Prefer to cc a suitable mailing list as well c) Ideally: find the original patch on the mailing list and do a reply-to-all to that, adding suitable additional cc's *** Remember to use Documentation/SubmitChecklist when testing your code *** See http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/stuff/added-to-mm.txt to find out what to do about this The current -mm tree may be found at http://userweb.kernel.org/~akpm/mmotm/ ------------------------------------------------------ Subject: include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit-fix From: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Michal Januszewski <michalj@xxxxxxxxx> Cc: Rolf Eike Beer <eike-kernel@xxxxxxxxx Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- include/linux/kernel.h | 7 +++++++ 1 file changed, 7 insertions(+) diff -puN include/linux/kernel.h~include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit-fix include/linux/kernel.h --- a/include/linux/kernel.h~include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit-fix +++ a/include/linux/kernel.h @@ -143,6 +143,13 @@ extern int _cond_resched(void); #define might_sleep_if(cond) do { if (cond) might_sleep(); } while (0) +/* + * abs() handles unsigned and signed longs, ints, shorts and chars. For long + * types it returns a signed long. For int, short and char types it returns a + * signed int. + * abs() should not be used for 64-bit types (s64, u64, long long) - use abs64() + * for those. + */ #define abs(x) ({ \ long ret; \ if (sizeof(x) == sizeof(long)) { \ _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are hpet-factor-timer-allocate-from-open.patch linux-next.patch next-remove-localversion.patch i-need-old-gcc.patch aesni-nfg.patch arch-alpha-kernel-systblss-remove-debug-check.patch mm-page_allocc-fix-build_all_zonelist-where-percpu_alloc-is-wrongly-called-under-stop_machine_run-cleanup.patch mm-vmap-area-cache.patch arch-x86-kernel-entry_64s-fix-build-with-gas-2161.patch arch-x86-kernel-entry_32s-i386-too.patch arch-x86-include-asm-fixmaph-mark-__set_fixmap_offset-as-__always_inline.patch arch-x86-kernel-apic-io_apicc-fix-warning.patch drivers-gpu-drm-radeon-atomc-fix-warning.patch irq-use-per_cpu-kstat_irqs-checkpatch-fixes.patch leds-route-kbd-leds-through-the-generic-leds-layer.patch atmel_serial-fix-rts-high-after-initialization-in-rs485-mode-fix.patch drivers-message-fusion-mptsasc-fix-warning.patch mm.patch mm-vmstat-use-a-single-setter-function-and-callback-for-adjusting-percpu-thresholds-fix.patch writeback-check-skipped-pages-on-wb_sync_all-update-fix.patch writeback-make-nr_to_write-a-per-file-limit-fix.patch sync_inode_metadata-fix-comment.patch fs-mpagec-consolidate-code-checkpatch-fixes.patch frv-duplicate-output_buffer-of-e03-checkpatch-fixes.patch include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit.patch include-linux-kernelh-abs-fix-handling-of-32-bit-unsigneds-on-64-bit-fix.patch fs-select-fix-information-leak-to-userspace-fix.patch memcg-document-cgroup-dirty-memory-interfaces-fix.patch fs-proc-basec-kernel-latencytopc-convert-sprintf_symbol-to-%ps-checkpatch-fixes.patch exec_domain-establish-a-linux32-domain-on-config_compat-systems.patch pps-add-async-pps-event-handler-fix.patch memstick-add-driver-for-ricoh-r5c592-card-reader-fix.patch journal_add_journal_head-debug.patch slab-leaks3-default-y.patch put_bh-debug.patch getblk-handle-2tb-devices.patch memblock-add-input-size-checking-to-memblock_find_region.patch memblock-add-input-size-checking-to-memblock_find_region-fix.patch -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe mm-commits" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html