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| author | Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> | 2010-01-15 17:01:12 -0800 |
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| committer | Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org> | 2010-01-16 12:15:38 -0800 |
| commit | 8ecc2951534af10e04ddb5e5ff5c6d217b79f5c2 (patch) | |
| tree | 44c8400754bc42a072fe7dc117696ebb5699920e /kernel | |
| parent | 2427b8e3eaea3719e53bbed7b3375382c3aa6f13 (diff) | |
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kfifo: use void * pointers for user buffers
The pointers to user buffers are currently unsigned char *, which requires
a lot of casting in the caller for any non-char typed buffers. Use void *
instead.
Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Acked-by: Stefani Seibold <stefani@seibold.net>
Cc: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
Cc: Dmitry Torokhov <dmitry.torokhov@gmail.com>
Cc: Andy Walls <awalls@radix.net>
Cc: Vikram Dhillon <dhillonv10@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'kernel')
| -rw-r--r-- | kernel/kfifo.c | 8 |
1 files changed, 4 insertions, 4 deletions
diff --git a/kernel/kfifo.c b/kernel/kfifo.c index e92d519..ab615e6 100644 --- a/kernel/kfifo.c +++ b/kernel/kfifo.c @@ -28,7 +28,7 @@ #include <linux/log2.h> #include <linux/uaccess.h> -static void _kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned char *buffer, +static void _kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, void *buffer, unsigned int size) { fifo->buffer = buffer; @@ -44,7 +44,7 @@ static void _kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned char *buffer, * @size: the size of the internal buffer, this have to be a power of 2. * */ -void kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned char *buffer, unsigned int size) +void kfifo_init(struct kfifo *fifo, void *buffer, unsigned int size) { /* size must be a power of 2 */ BUG_ON(!is_power_of_2(size)); @@ -235,7 +235,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_in_n); * Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent * writer, you don't need extra locking to use these functions. */ -unsigned int kfifo_in(struct kfifo *fifo, const unsigned char *from, +unsigned int kfifo_in(struct kfifo *fifo, const void *from, unsigned int len) { len = min(kfifo_avail(fifo), len); @@ -277,7 +277,7 @@ EXPORT_SYMBOL(__kfifo_out_n); * Note that with only one concurrent reader and one concurrent * writer, you don't need extra locking to use these functions. */ -unsigned int kfifo_out(struct kfifo *fifo, unsigned char *to, unsigned int len) +unsigned int kfifo_out(struct kfifo *fifo, void *to, unsigned int len) { len = min(kfifo_len(fifo), len); |