The patch titled block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() has been added to the -mm tree. Its filename is block-genhdc-remove-useless-cast-in-diskstats_show.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: block/genhd.c: remove useless cast in diskstats_show() From: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Remove the (unsigned long long) cast in diskstats_show() and adjusts the seq_printf() format string to 'unsigned long' diskstats_show() uses part_stat_read() to get the stats, which either accesses the specified field in the struct disk_stats directly (non SMP) or sums up the per CPU values in a variable of the same type as the field, so in any case the result will have the same type and range as the specified field which for all disk_stats entries is unsigned long Also, for unsigned long ranges the output of %lu should be identical to the one of %llu, so no change in the actual proc entry contents. Signed-off-by: Herbert Poetzl <herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx> Cc: Jens Axboe <axboe@xxxxxxxxx> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> --- block/genhd.c | 8 ++++---- 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+), 4 deletions(-) diff -puN block/genhd.c~block-genhdc-remove-useless-cast-in-diskstats_show block/genhd.c --- a/block/genhd.c~block-genhdc-remove-useless-cast-in-diskstats_show +++ a/block/genhd.c @@ -1154,17 +1154,17 @@ static int diskstats_show(struct seq_fil cpu = part_stat_lock(); part_round_stats(cpu, hd); part_stat_unlock(); - seq_printf(seqf, "%4d %7d %s %lu %lu %llu " - "%u %lu %lu %llu %u %u %u %u\n", + seq_printf(seqf, "%4d %7d %s %lu %lu %lu " + "%u %lu %lu %lu %u %u %u %u\n", MAJOR(part_devt(hd)), MINOR(part_devt(hd)), disk_name(gp, hd->partno, buf), part_stat_read(hd, ios[READ]), part_stat_read(hd, merges[READ]), - (unsigned long long)part_stat_read(hd, sectors[READ]), + part_stat_read(hd, sectors[READ]), jiffies_to_msecs(part_stat_read(hd, ticks[READ])), part_stat_read(hd, ios[WRITE]), part_stat_read(hd, merges[WRITE]), - (unsigned long long)part_stat_read(hd, sectors[WRITE]), + part_stat_read(hd, sectors[WRITE]), jiffies_to_msecs(part_stat_read(hd, ticks[WRITE])), part_in_flight(hd), jiffies_to_msecs(part_stat_read(hd, io_ticks)), _ Patches currently in -mm which might be from herbert@xxxxxxxxxxxx are block-genhdc-remove-useless-cast-in-diskstats_show.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