[PATCH 2/2] [PATCH 2/2] proc-vmcore: wrong data type casting fix

[Minfei Huang]

On 03/11/16 at 02:21pm, dyoung at redhat.com wrote:
> @@ -231,7 +231,8 @@ static ssize_t __read_vmcore(char *buffe
>  
>  	list_for_each_entry(m, &vmcore_list, list) {
>  		if (*fpos < m->offset + m->size) {
> -			tsz = min_t(size_t, m->offset + m->size - *fpos, buflen);
> +			tsz = (size_t)min_lt(m->offset + m->size - *fpos,
> +					    buflen);
>  			start = m->paddr + *fpos - m->offset;
>  			tmp = read_from_oldmem(buffer, tsz, &start, userbuf);
>  			if (tmp < 0)
> @@ -461,7 +462,7 @@ static int mmap_vmcore(struct file *file
>  		if (start < m->offset + m->size) {
>  			u64 paddr = 0;
>  
> -			tsz = min_t(size_t, m->offset + m->size - start, size);
> +			tsz = (size_t)min_lt(m->offset + m->size - start, size);
>  			paddr = m->paddr + start - m->offset;
>  			if (vmcore_remap_oldmem_pfn(vma, vma->vm_start + len,
>  						    paddr >> PAGE_SHIFT, tsz,

Hi, Dave.

Seems the previous parameter is unsigned long long, and the later one is
size_t. The size of both these types doesn't change in running time, why
not use min_t(unsigned long long, a, b) instead?

Thanks
Minfei