Type checking for write_pda() From: Jeremy Fitzhardinge I just added type checking for assignments the PDA in the i386 PDA code. Here's the x86-64 equivalent. (Obviously this doesn't contain the latest x86-64 PDA change.) Signed-off-by: Jeremy Fitzhardinge Signed-off-by: Andi Kleen --- include/asm-x86_64/pda.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) Index: linux/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h =================================================================== --- linux.orig/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h +++ linux/include/asm-x86_64/pda.h @@ -49,7 +49,8 @@ extern struct x8664_pda _proxy_pda; #define pda_to_op(op,field,val) do { \ typedef typeof(_proxy_pda.field) T__; \ - switch (sizeof(_proxy_pda.field)) { \ + if (0) { T__ tmp__; tmp__ = (val); } \ + switch (sizeof(_proxy_pda.field)) { \ case 2: \ asm(op "w %1,%%gs:%c2" : "+m" (_proxy_pda.field) : \ "ri" ((T__)val),"i"(pda_offset(field))); break; \