linux-kernel - [RFC PATCH 00/10] Use __kernel_[u]long

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 15:13:26 -0700
From:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
To:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org
Cc:	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de, "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
Subject: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t for x32 user space compatibility

From: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@...il.com>

This patch set changes a number of places where the kernel headers are
exported to user space and currently use explicit "long" or "unsigned
long" to use __kernel_[u]long_t in order to be compatible with the x32
user space ABI.  These location are places where x32 uses the x86-64
ABI.

It is quite possible that some, or even all, of these locations should
really use dedicated types, but in the meantime this gives the correct
results which the current headers do not.

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