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

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Date:	Thu, 17 May 2012 17:21:34 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
CC:	"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@...il.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
	mingo@...nel.org, tglx@...utronix.de
Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 00/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t for x32 user space compatibility

On 05/17/2012 05:19 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> 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

Link please?

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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