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authorFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>2014-03-05 15:33:18 +0100
committerFrederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>2014-03-13 15:56:43 +0100
commit69bb2600c9f8ca450fede9633edf9c2513c9ee6f (patch)
tree882511f34317d6c092430f9f19f6d89e9231c623
parent6f008e72cd111a119b5d8de8c5438d892aae99eb (diff)
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 <[email protected]> Cc: Marcelo Tosatti <[email protected]> Cc: Peter Zijlstra <[email protected]> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> Acked-by: Rik van Riel <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Frederic Weisbecker <[email protected]>
-rw-r--r--include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h3
1 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h b/include/asm-generic/cputime_nsecs.h
index 2c9e62c2bfd0..768294f8bf85 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)
/*