Re: [PATCH] [ppc64] Fix compat cpu affinity on big endian 64bit

[Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>]

Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
>
> Add compat sched affinity code. We can argue about how 
>  USE_COMPAT_ULONG_CPUMASK works now that the non compat interface has changed.
> 
>  The old non compat behaviour was to require a bitmap long enough in both
>  setaffinity and getaffinity, now its only required in getaffinity. I
>  could do the same for the 32bit interfaces.
> 
>  Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
> 
>  diff -puN kernel/compat.c~compat_sys_sched_affinity kernel/compat.c
>  --- gr_work/kernel/compat.c~compat_sys_sched_affinity	2004-09-06 04:19:06.327399153 -0500
>  +++ gr_work-anton/kernel/compat.c	2004-09-07 19:36:09.127584076 -0500
>  @@ -412,16 +412,43 @@ compat_sys_wait4(compat_pid_t pid, compa
>   	}
>   }
>   
>  +/*
>  + * for maximum compatability, we allow programs to use a single (compat)
>  + * unsigned long bitmask if all cpus will fit. If not, you have to have
>  + * at least the kernel size available.
>  + */
>  +#define USE_COMPAT_ULONG_CPUMASK (NR_CPUS <= BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG)

umm, wanna send along a patch which defines BITS_PER_COMPAT_LONG?