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From: hannes@cmpxchg.org
To: Minchan Kim <minchan.kim@gmail.com>
Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Dave Young <hidave.darkstar@gmail.com>,
	Greg Thelen <gthelen@google.com>,
	Andrea Righi <arighi@develer.com>,
	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>,
	Daisuke Nishimura <nishimura@mxp.nes.nec.co.jp>,
	Balbir Singh <balbir@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm <linux-mm@kvack.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] memcg: use do_div to divide s64 in 32 bit machine.
Date: Sat, 6 Nov 2010 02:03:57 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20101106010357.GD23393@cmpxchg.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1288973333-7891-1-git-send-email-minchan.kim@gmail.com>

On Sat, Nov 06, 2010 at 01:08:53AM +0900, Minchan Kim wrote:
> Use do_div to divide s64 value. Otherwise, build would be failed
> like Dave Young reported.

I thought about that too, but then I asked myself why you would want
to represent a number of pages as signed 64bit type, even on 32 bit?

Isn't the much better fix to get the types right instead?

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  parent reply	other threads:[~2010-11-06  1:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2010-11-05 16:08 Minchan Kim
2010-11-05 16:34 ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-06  1:03 ` hannes [this message]
2010-11-06 17:19   ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-06 17:31     ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-07 22:14     ` [patch 0/4] memcg: variable type fixes Johannes Weiner
2010-11-07 22:14     ` [patch 1/4] memcg: use native word to represent dirtyable pages Johannes Weiner
2010-11-07 22:56       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-08 22:25         ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-08 22:38           ` Johannes Weiner
2010-11-08 22:43             ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-16  3:37       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-11-07 22:14     ` [patch 2/4] memcg: catch negative per-cpu sums in dirty info Johannes Weiner
2010-11-07 23:26       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-08 22:28         ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-16  3:39       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-11-07 22:14     ` [patch 3/4] memcg: break out event counters from other stats Johannes Weiner
2010-11-07 23:52       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-08 23:20         ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-16  3:41       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki
2010-11-07 22:14     ` [patch 4/4] memcg: use native word page statistics counters Johannes Weiner
2010-11-08  0:01       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-08  9:08         ` Johannes Weiner
2010-11-08 22:51         ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-08  0:07       ` Minchan Kim
2010-11-08  9:37         ` memcg writeout throttling, was: " Johannes Weiner
2010-11-08 15:45           ` Wu Fengguang
2010-11-08 19:00             ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-08 23:27       ` Greg Thelen
2010-11-08 23:45         ` Johannes Weiner
2010-11-16  3:44       ` KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki

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