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

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 20:19:25 -0400
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
To:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	torvalds@...ux-foundation.org, hpa@...or.com, mingo@...nel.org,
	tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t for x32 user space compatibility

On Thursday 17 May 2012 18:13:26 H.J. Lu wrote:
> 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.

tangentially related, but what happened to the x86 asm/ptrace.h patch i sent 
that changed all the registers from unsigned long to u64 ?  e.g.
 struct pt_regs {  
-	unsigned long r15;
+	__u64 r15;
-mike

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