Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types
authorArnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 06:41:11 +0000 (23:41 -0700)
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>
Mon, 16 Jul 2007 16:05:48 +0000 (09:05 -0700)
commit4b7775870b69129e640ed583c9b362d5cd66159d
tree3634c3fb91c927cfd9b4e5751e06463537849ce3
parent6d9525b52aecd11b14c4ec982add01c11157172f
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>
include/asm-ia64/compat.h
include/asm-mips/compat.h
include/asm-parisc/compat.h
include/asm-powerpc/compat.h
include/asm-s390/compat.h
include/asm-sparc64/compat.h
include/asm-x86_64/compat.h