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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2007-07-16 02:41:11 -0400
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 12:05:48 -0400
commit4b7775870b69129e640ed583c9b362d5cd66159d (patch)
tree3634c3fb91c927cfd9b4e5751e06463537849ce3 /include/asm-mips/compat.h
parent6d9525b52aecd11b14c4ec982add01c11157172f (diff)
Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types
One common problem with 32 bit system call and ioctl emulation is the different alignment rules between i386 and 64 bit machines. A number of drivers work around this by marking the compat structures as 'attribute((packed))', which is not the right solution because it breaks all the non-x86 architectures that want to use the same compat code. Hopefully, this patch improves the situation, it introduces two new types, compat_u64 and compat_s64. These are defined on all architectures to have the same size and alignment as the 32 bit version of u64 and s64. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Cc: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> Cc: Vasily Tarasov <vtaras@openvz.org> Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'include/asm-mips/compat.h')
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diff --git a/include/asm-mips/compat.h b/include/asm-mips/compat.h
index 67c3f8ec0303..568c76cdd900 100644
--- a/include/asm-mips/compat.h
+++ b/include/asm-mips/compat.h
@@ -37,8 +37,10 @@ typedef s32 compat_key_t;
37 37
38typedef s32 compat_int_t; 38typedef s32 compat_int_t;
39typedef s32 compat_long_t; 39typedef s32 compat_long_t;
40typedef s64 compat_s64;
40typedef u32 compat_uint_t; 41typedef u32 compat_uint_t;
41typedef u32 compat_ulong_t; 42typedef u32 compat_ulong_t;
43typedef u64 compat_u64;
42 44
43struct compat_timespec { 45struct compat_timespec {
44 compat_time_t tv_sec; 46 compat_time_t tv_sec;