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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Petr Vandrovec <petr@vandrovec.name>
Cc: dan@dennedy.org, stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de,
	linux1394-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code
Date: Sun, 20 May 2007 01:55:25 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200705200155.26825.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070507021447.GA22197@vana.vc.cvut.cz>

On Monday 07 May 2007, Petr Vandrovec wrote:
> +struct raw1394_cycle_timer32 {
> +        __u32 cycle_timer;
> +        __u64 local_time;
> +} __attribute__((packed));

Note that this data structure only needs conversion on x86_64 and ia64, but
not on powerpc and other 64 bit architectures that align __u64 also in
32 bit mode.

I would suggest you introduce a new __compat_u64 type as

typedef __u64 __compat_u64 __attribute__((aligned(4)));

in include/asm-{x86_64,ia64}/compat.h and as

typdef __u64 __compat_u64;

in the other architectures. Other people have hit the same problem
before and found varying workarounds, but I think we should just
do it correctly now.

	Arnd <><

  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-05-19 23:57 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-05-07  2:14 [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code Petr Vandrovec
2007-05-07 16:40 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15  3:52 ` Dan Dennedy
2007-05-15 22:59 ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:00   ` [PATCH 1/3] ieee1394: raw1394: Fix read() for 32bit userland on 64bit kernel Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:01     ` [PATCH 2/3] ieee1394: raw1394: Fix write() " Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:02       ` [PATCH 3/3] ieee1394: raw1394: Add ioctl() " Stefan Richter
2007-05-15 23:51   ` [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code Petr Vandrovec
2007-05-19 23:55 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2007-05-20  0:02   ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 15:03     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-20 15:28       ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-20 15:37         ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-05-20 15:55           ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-21  7:28         ` Stefan Richter
2007-05-21 16:52           ` [PATCH] ieee1394: raw1394: Add ioctl() for 32bit userland on 64bit kernel, amendment Stefan Richter
2007-05-23  4:54         ` [PATCH] Fix/add raw1394 CONFIG_COMPAT code Dan Dennedy
2007-05-23  6:32           ` Stefan Richter

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