[PATCH] kdump: vmcore compilation warning fix

Vivek Goyal vgoyal at in.ibm.com
Tue Jan 10 18:04:22 EST 2006


o fs/proc/vmcore.c compilation gives warnings on ppc64. The reason being
  that u64 is defined as unsigned long hence u64* is not same as loff_t*
  and compiler cribs.

o Changed the parameter type to u64* instead of loff_t* to resolve the
  conflict.

Signed-off-by: Vivek Goyal <vgoyal at in.ibm.com>
---


diff -puN fs/proc/vmcore.c~ppc64-vmcore-compilation-warning-fix fs/proc/vmcore.c
--- linux-2.6.15-mm2-1M/fs/proc/vmcore.c~ppc64-vmcore-compilation-warning-fix	2006-01-09 06:59:06.000000000 -0800
+++ linux-2.6.15-mm2-1M-root/fs/proc/vmcore.c	2006-01-09 07:37:06.000000000 -0800
@@ -42,7 +42,7 @@ struct proc_dir_entry *proc_vmcore = NUL
 
 /* Reads a page from the oldmem device from given offset. */
 static ssize_t read_from_oldmem(char *buf, size_t count,
-			     loff_t *ppos, int userbuf)
+				u64 *ppos, int userbuf)
 {
 	unsigned long pfn, offset;
 	size_t nr_bytes;
_



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