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Date:	Wed, 4 Feb 2009 12:55:52 +0100
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	Jaswinder Singh Rajput <jaswinder@...nel.org>
Cc:	Herbert Xu <herbert@...dor.apana.org.au>, mingo@...e.hu,
	x86@...nel.org, sam@...nborg.org, hpa@...or.com,
	jirislaby@...il.com, gregkh@...e.de, davem@...emloft.net,
	xyzzy@...akeasy.org, arnd@...db.de, mchehab@...radead.org,
	jens.axboe@...cle.com, linux-media@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Avi Kivity <avi@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [GIT PULL -tip] fix 22 make headers_check - 200901

On Wednesday 04 February 2009, Jaswinder Singh Rajput wrote:
> On Wed, 2009-02-04 at 17:43 +1100, Herbert Xu wrote:
> > > -#include <asm/types.h>
> > > +#include <linux/types.h>
> > > #include <linux/ioctl.h>
> > 
> > Awesome, you've just broken the userspace build of kvm as the
> > file linux/types.h conflicts with sys/types.h.
> > 
> 
> What I did is absolutely right.
> 
> If there is any conflict then we need to solve it in better way.
> 
> Can you please share what is the conflict and what you are expecting and
> what you are getting.

I fear that the problem might be more widespread than just kvm.
The problem is that <linux/types.h> without __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
defines the standard types that glibc provides in its own <sys/types.h>,
some of them even defined differently (e.g. the size of off_t depends
__USE_FILE_OFFSET64).

You should be able to do

#include <sys/types.h>
#define __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
#include <linux/types.h>

or

#include <sys/types.h>
#include <asm/types.h>

but not without the __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES! This means that the
mass-conversion to <linux/types.h> was flawed and should be fixed
before 2.6.29 to avoid more trouble.

This is related to the point I brought up earlier with u_int32_t
and other types being problematic in user space. I would suggest
changing all the headers that you converted from <asm/types.h>
to <linux/types.h> again to <linux/strict_types.h>, and apply
the patch below to make that possible.

---
Subject: introduce <linux/strict_types.h>

Exported user space headers should not use <linux/types.h> as that
leaks a number of type names, which conflict with the <sys/types.h>
provided by many libc variants.

This introduces a <linux/strict_types.h> that can be safely included
by any other header file.

Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

--- /dev/null
+++ b/include/linux/strict_types.h
@@ -0,0 +1,31 @@
+#ifndef __LINUX_STRICT_TYPES_H
+#define __LINUX_STRICT_TYPES_H
+
+#include <asm/types.h>
+/*
+ * Below are truly Linux-specific types that should never collide with
+ * any application/library that wants linux/types.h.
+ */
+
+#ifdef __CHECKER__
+#define __bitwise__ __attribute__((bitwise))
+#else
+#define __bitwise__
+#endif
+#ifdef __CHECK_ENDIAN__
+#define __bitwise __bitwise__
+#else
+#define __bitwise
+#endif
+
+typedef __u16 __bitwise __le16;
+typedef __u16 __bitwise __be16;
+typedef __u32 __bitwise __le32;
+typedef __u32 __bitwise __be32;
+typedef __u64 __bitwise __le64;
+typedef __u64 __bitwise __be64;
+
+typedef __u16 __bitwise __sum16;
+typedef __u32 __bitwise __wsum;
+
+#endif /* __LINUX_STRICT_TYPES_H */
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 712ca53..beacdb7 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -9,7 +9,7 @@
 #endif
 
 #include <linux/posix_types.h>
-#include <asm/types.h>
+#include <linux/strict_types.h>
 
 #ifndef __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES
 
@@ -156,32 +156,6 @@ typedef unsigned long blkcnt_t;
 
 #endif /* __KERNEL_STRICT_NAMES */
 
-/*
- * Below are truly Linux-specific types that should never collide with
- * any application/library that wants linux/types.h.
- */
-
-#ifdef __CHECKER__
-#define __bitwise__ __attribute__((bitwise))
-#else
-#define __bitwise__
-#endif
-#ifdef __CHECK_ENDIAN__
-#define __bitwise __bitwise__
-#else
-#define __bitwise
-#endif
-
-typedef __u16 __bitwise __le16;
-typedef __u16 __bitwise __be16;
-typedef __u32 __bitwise __le32;
-typedef __u32 __bitwise __be32;
-typedef __u64 __bitwise __le64;
-typedef __u64 __bitwise __be64;
-
-typedef __u16 __bitwise __sum16;
-typedef __u32 __bitwise __wsum;
-
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 typedef unsigned __bitwise__ gfp_t;
 typedef unsigned __bitwise__ fmode_t;
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