[PATCH] compat: introduce compat_time_t

This patch is based on work by Carlos O'Donell and Matthew Wilcox.  It
introduces/updates the compat_time_t type and uses it for compat siginfo
structures.  I have built this on ppc64 and x86_64.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

2 files changed, 2 insertions, 1 deletions

diff --git a/include/asm-ppc64/compat.h b/include/asm-ppc64/compat.h
index 09c28d28ce6c..12414f5fc666 100644
--- a/include/asm-ppc64/compat.h
+++ b/include/asm-ppc64/compat.h
@@ -26,6 +26,7 @@ typedef s32		compat_daddr_t;
 typedef u32             compat_caddr_t;
 typedef __kernel_fsid_t compat_fsid_t;
 typedef s32             compat_key_t;
+typedef s32             compat_timer_t;
 
 typedef s32             compat_int_t;
 typedef s32             compat_long_t;
diff --git a/include/asm-ppc64/ppc32.h b/include/asm-ppc64/ppc32.h
index 1d0404897550..6b44a8caf395 100644
--- a/include/asm-ppc64/ppc32.h
+++ b/include/asm-ppc64/ppc32.h
@@ -32,7 +32,7 @@ typedef struct compat_siginfo {
 
                 /* POSIX.1b timers */
                 struct {
-                        timer_t _tid;                   /* timer id */
+                        compat_timer_t _tid;                    /* timer id */
                         int _overrun;                   /* overrun count */
                         compat_sigval_t _sigval;                /* same as below */
                         int _sys_private;               /* not to be passed to user */