Re: [patch 07/38] treewide: Consolidate cycles_t
Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]>
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On Fri, 10 Apr 2026 at 14:19, Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> wrote: > Most architectures define cycles_t as unsigned long execpt: > > - x86 requires it to be 64-bit independent of the 32-bit/64-bit build. > > - parisc and mips define it as unsigned int > > parisc has no real reason to do so as there are only a few usage sites > which either expand it to a 64-bit value or utilize only the lower > 32bits. > > mips has no real requirement either. > > Move the typedef to types.h and provide a config switch to enforce the > 64-bit type for x86. > > Signed-off-by: Thomas Gleixner <[email protected]> > arch/m68k/include/asm/timex.h | 2 -- Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <[email protected]> # m68k Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- [email protected] In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds