linux-kernel - [COMPAT] Add compat

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Date:	Fri, 28 Sep 2007 18:33:51 -0400
From:	Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
To:	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
Subject: [COMPAT] Add compat_merge64 helper

To be used when endianness matters for argument ordering when reassembling
a 64-bit value out of two register halves.

Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@...artin.ca>
---
 include/linux/compat.h |    9 +++++++++
 1 files changed, 9 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)

diff --git a/include/linux/compat.h b/include/linux/compat.h
index 0e69d2c..07bcc3c 100644
--- a/include/linux/compat.h
+++ b/include/linux/compat.h
@@ -267,5 +267,14 @@ asmlinkage long compat_sys_signalfd(int ufd,
 asmlinkage long compat_sys_timerfd(int ufd, int clockid, int flags,
 				const struct compat_itimerspec __user *utmr);
 
+static inline u64 compat_merge64(u32 left, u32 right)
+{
+#if defined(__BIG_ENDIAN)
+	return ((u64)left << 32) | right;
+#else /* defined (__LITTLE_ENDIAN) */
+	return ((u64)right << 32) | left;
+#endif
+}
+	
 #endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
 #endif /* _LINUX_COMPAT_H */
-- 
1.5.3.2

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