linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit powerpc

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:27:18 +0200
From:	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
To:	Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:	benh@...nel.crashing.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...abs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit
	powerpc


* Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar writes:
> 
> > Note, i left out this bit from the commit - we need to find a 
> > better solution than to allow ugly warnings on PowerPC.
> > 
> > Could we use the kernel's u64 type directly perhaps? That would 
> > allow us to change all __u64 to u64 in all of tools/perf/ which 
> > is a nice clean-up in any case.
> 
> This is userspace, we can use "u64" however we like. :) I'll cook 
> up a patch to add "typedef unsigned long long u64" and change 
> __u64 to u64.

Thanks, i've applied the patch. Note, it crossed with a few changes 
from Peter - i fixed up the conflicts - please double check whether 
it's still fine on PowerPC too.

	Ingo
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