On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 11:29 AM, Linus Torvalds <torva...@linux-foundation.org> wrote: > On Thu, Nov 12, 2015 at 12:00 AM, Ingo Molnar <mi...@kernel.org> wrote: [..] > I have this dim memory of us playing around with just making PAGE_SIZE > (and thus PAGE_MASK) always be signed, but that it caused other > problems. Signed types have downsides too.
FWIW, I ran into this recently with the pfn_t patch. mips and powerpc have PAGE_MASK as a signed int. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
