On Thursday, 29 March 2007 21:46, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> On Thu, 29 Mar 2007 00:28:07 +0200
> "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> 
> > On Thursday, 29 March 2007 00:14, Tim Dijkstra wrote:
> > > On Tue, 27 Mar 2007 23:11:41 +0200
> > > "Rafael J. Wysocki" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
> > > 
> > > > > diff -u -r1.70 suspend.c
> > > > > --- suspend.c   16 Mar 2007 16:02:22 -0000      1.70
> > > > > +++ suspend.c   27 Mar 2007 20:36:52 -0000
> > > > > @@ -208,7 +208,7 @@
> > > > >         swap.offset = offset;
> > > > >         error = ioctl(dev, SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA, &swap);
> > > > >         if (error && !offset)
> > > > > -               error = ioctl(dev, SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE, blkdev);
> > > > > +               error = ioctl(dev, SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE, (unsigned 
> > > > > long) blkdev);  
> > > > 
> > > > Heh, I wonder. :-)
> > > 
> > > 
> > > Apparently it worked... IMHO this means the code in user.c should be
> > > different. snapshot_ioctl expects an unsigned long, which isn't what 
> > > the user sends. Would it be useful to use copy_from_user()? (Disclaimer
> > > I haven't written a single line of kernel code yet, this is just from
> > > reading user.c)
> > 
> > Well, maybe, but then we'd have to redefine the ioctl which I'd rather 
> > avoid.
> > Besides, the kernel only needs the lower 32 bits anyway, so why should we
> > complicate things to pass the remaining 32 zero bits to it for nothing?
> > 
> > The problem is that in fact the kernel expects us to provide a _pointer_
> > as arg to the ioctl and unsigned long just happens to be of the same size.  
> > So
> > I think we can live with your hack in the userland just fine (but please 
> > add a
> > comment explaining why its needed).
> 
> Would this comment suffice?

I think so, but I'd like Cédric to try one more thing: revert your patch and 
apply the
appended one.  If that works, the comment won't even be necessary (I think).

Greetings,
Rafael

---
 suspend.c |    2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

Index: suspend/suspend.c
===================================================================
--- suspend.orig/suspend.c
+++ suspend/suspend.c
@@ -199,7 +199,7 @@ static inline int free_swap_pages(int de
        return ioctl(dev, SNAPSHOT_FREE_SWAP_PAGES, 0);
 }
 
-static inline int set_swap_file(int dev, dev_t blkdev, loff_t offset)
+static inline int set_swap_file(int dev, u_int32_t blkdev, loff_t offset)
 {
        struct resume_swap_area swap;
        int error;

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