From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: tglx@linutronix.de, y2038@lists.linaro.org, hch@infradead.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
libc-alpha@sourceware.org, albert.aribaud@3adev.fr,
netdev@vger.kernel.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk,
peterz@infradead.org, dvhart@infradead.org,
ebiederm@xmission.com, linux@dominikbrodowski.net
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 01/17] y2038: compat: Move common compat types to asm-generic/compat.h
Date: Tue, 17 Jul 2018 05:49:25 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20180717124925.GA25416@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20180716161103.16239-2-arnd@arndb.de>
On Mon, Jul 16, 2018 at 06:10:47PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> While converting compat system call handlers to work on 32-bit
> architectures, I found a number of types used in those handlers
> that are identical between all architectures.
>
> Let's move all the identical ones into asm-generic/compat.h to avoid
> having to add even more identical definitions of those types.
>
> For unknown reasons, mips defines __compat_gid32_t, __compat_uid32_t
> and compat_caddr_t as signed, while all others have them unsigned.
> This seems to be a mistake, but I'm leaving it alone here. The other
> types all differ by size or alignment on at least on architecture.
>
> compat_aio_context_t is currently defined in linux/compat.h but
> also needed for compat_sys_io_getevents(), so let's move it into
> the same place.
>
> While we still have not decided whether the 32-bit time handling
> will always use the compat syscalls, or in which form, I think this
> is a useful cleanup that we can merge regardless.
Looks good:
Reviewed-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-07-17 12:49 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-07-16 16:10 [PATCH v2 00/17] y2038: system calls, part 3 Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 01/17] y2038: compat: Move common compat types to asm-generic/compat.h Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-17 12:49 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 02/17] y2038: Remove newstat family from default syscall set Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-17 12:50 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-17 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-18 20:15 ` Joseph Myers
2018-07-19 8:53 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 03/17] y2038: Remove stat64 " Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 04/17] asm-generic: Remove unneeded __ARCH_WANT_SYS_LLSEEK macro Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-17 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 05/17] asm-generic: Remove empty asm/unistd.h Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-17 12:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 06/17] y2038: Change sys_utimensat() to use __kernel_timespec Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-17 12:52 ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-07-17 14:27 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 07/17] y2038: Compile utimes()/futimesat() conditionally Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 08/17] y2038: utimes: Rework #ifdef guards for compat syscalls Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 09/17] y2038: futex: Move compat implementation into futex.c Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 10/17] y2038: futex: Add support for __kernel_timespec Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 11/17] y2038: Prepare sched_rr_get_interval " Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 12/17] y2038: aio: Prepare sys_io_{p,}getevents " Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:10 ` [PATCH v2 13/17] y2038: socket: Convert recvmmsg to __kernel_timespec Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:11 ` [PATCH v2 14/17] y2038: socket: Add compat_sys_recvmmsg_time64 Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:11 ` [PATCH v2 15/17] y2038: signal: Change rt_sigtimedwait to use __kernel_timespec Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:11 ` [PATCH v2 16/17] y2038: Make compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait usable on 32-bit Arnd Bergmann
2018-07-16 16:11 ` [PATCH v2 17/17] y2038: signal: Add compat_sys_rt_sigtimedwait_time64 Arnd Bergmann
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