On Mon, Nov 13, 2006 at 06:17:00PM +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Monday 13 November 2006 17:28, Vivek Goyal wrote:
> >
> > This patch makes pgtable.h and page.h safe to include
> > in assembly files like head.S. Allowing us to use
> > symbolic constants instead of hard coded numbers when
> > refering to the page tables.
>
> Hmm, I think the ULs are probably not needed anyways. What
> happens when you just drop them even for C? You shouldn't get any
> new warnings i hope.
>
I think we need these UL suffixes. Otherwise in some cases overflow
can take place and compiler emits warning.
For ex. in following definition I got rid of UL.
#define PGDIR_SIZE (1 << PGDIR_SHIFT)
Here constant defaulted to intger and PGDIR_SHIFT is 39. Hence compiler
emits following warning wherever PGDIR_SIZE is used.
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c: In function init_level3_page:
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:47: warning: left shift count >=
width of type
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c: In function init_level4_page:
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:80: warning: left shift count >=
width of type
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:96: warning: left shift count >=
width of type
arch/x86_64/kernel/machine_kexec.c:101: warning: left shift count >=
width of type
Thanks
Vivek
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