Date: Sun, 5 Jul 2009 10:48:49 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: "Figo.zhang" <figo1802@gmail.com>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
       Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>, lkml <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2]mempool.c : clean up type-casting twice
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* Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com> wrote:

> clean up type-casting twice. "size_t" typedef as "unsigned long" in 64-bit system,
> and "unsigned int" in 32-bit system.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Figo.zhang <figo1802@gmail.com>
> ---   
> mm/mempool.c |    2 +-
>  1 files changed, 1 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
> 
> diff --git a/mm/mempool.c b/mm/mempool.c
> index a46eb1b..bd22982 100644
> --- a/mm/mempool.c
> +++ b/mm/mempool.c
> @@ -303,7 +303,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_free_slab);
>   */
>  void *mempool_kmalloc(gfp_t gfp_mask, void *pool_data)
>  {
> -	size_t size = (size_t)(long)pool_data;
> +	size_t size = (size_t) pool_data;
>  	return kmalloc(size, gfp_mask);
>  }
>  EXPORT_SYMBOL(mempool_kmalloc);

(Style detail: please dont add spaces to casts. That should be fixed 
in mempool_kzalloc() too btw.)

Looks good otherwise - size_t ought to be long on all 64-bit 
architectures.

	Ingo
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