Drivers: hv: vmbus: Correcting truncation error for constant HV_CRASH_CTL_CRASH_NOTIFY
HV_CRASH_CTL_CRASH_NOTIFY is a 64 bit number. Depending on the usage context, the value may be truncated. This patch is in response from the following email from Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com>: From: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Subject: [char-misc:char-misc-testing 25/45] drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c:67:9: sparse: constant 0x8000000000000000 is so big it is unsigned long tree: git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/gregkh/char-misc.git char-misc-testing head: b3de8e37 commit: 96c1d058 [25/45] Drivers: hv: vmbus: Add support for VMBus panic notifier handler reproduce: # apt-get install sparse git checkout 96c1d058 make ARCH=x86_64 allmodconfig make C=1 CF=-D__CHECK_ENDIAN__ sparse warnings: (new ones prefixed by >>) drivers/hv/vmbus_drv.c:67:9: sparse: constant 0x8000000000000000 is so big it is unsigned long ... Signed-off-by: Nick Meier <nmeier@microsoft.com> Reported-by: Wu Fengguang <fengguang.wu@intel.com> Signed-off-by: K. Y. Srinivasan <kys@microsoft.com> Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>
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