Re: What's become with PPC patches?

Hello.

Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> You are right, I see no other place to put the trap entry/exit elsewhere than in
> arch/*/mm/fault.c. I will leave the new "page_fault" event, which is linked to
> the handle_mm_fault function : it makes sense to instrument page faults caused
> by get_user_pages too.

    That fix caused warning to be emitted:

arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c: In function ‘do_page_fault’:
arch/powerpc/mm/fault.c:347: warning: format ‘%d’ expects type ‘int’, but 
argument 2 has type ‘long unsigned int’

    That's poses danger on PPC64 where sizeof(int) == 4 and sizeof(long) == 8.

WBR, Sergei