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authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>2007-07-15 23:41:11 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-07-16 09:05:48 -0700
commit4b7775870b69129e640ed583c9b362d5cd66159d (patch)
tree3634c3fb91c927cfd9b4e5751e06463537849ce3 /include/asm-ia64/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-ia64/compat.h')
-rw-r--r--include/asm-ia64/compat.h2
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diff --git a/include/asm-ia64/compat.h b/include/asm-ia64/compat.h
index 40d01d80610..0f6e5264ab8 100644
--- a/include/asm-ia64/compat.h
+++ b/include/asm-ia64/compat.h
@@ -31,8 +31,10 @@ typedef s32 compat_timer_t;
typedef s32 compat_int_t;
typedef s32 compat_long_t;
+typedef s64 __attribute__((aligned(4))) compat_s64;
typedef u32 compat_uint_t;
typedef u32 compat_ulong_t;
+typedef u64 __attribute__((aligned(4))) compat_u64;
struct compat_timespec {
compat_time_t tv_sec;