By popular request, add a comment documenting the implicit type promotion
here.

Signed-off-by: Jason Uhlenkott <juhlenko@akamai.com>
Signed-off-by: Doug Thompson <dougthompson@xmission.com>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>