From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
David Daney <ddaney.cavm@gmail.com>,
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
"H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
mingo@kernel.org, tglx@linutronix.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds
Date: Fri, 18 May 2012 15:08:34 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4FB6C862.5060401@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <201205182158.59616.arnd@arndb.de>
On 05/18/2012 02:58 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> But why do you think it's wrong the way it is? I see the idea of putting
> padding in varying places depending on the endianess as a failed experiment
> and defining a structure that is always the same as the logical conclusion
> from that, even if it's a bit silly to have any padding in it at all.
>
The *whole point* is to make the structure the same across modes, to
make the compat layer's job easier.
> Being consistent seems more important here than following the intent
> of whoever came up with the concept of the ipc64 data structures
> and was consequently ignored by most people after him.
So you're saying because some architectures introduced a bug, we should
*CONTINUE* to introduce the same bug?? WTF??
> If we really wanted the data structures to be compatible between 32 and
> 64 bit mode, we'd have to use __u64 here but that would mean having to
> change all bits of user code that already rely on the existing x86
> compatible layout.
x86 is doing it right. Some bigendian architectures blindly copied what
x86 was doing without thinking. That's a bug on their part, period.
-hpa
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-05-18 22:08 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 62+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-05-17 22:13 [RFC PATCH 00/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t for x32 user space compatibility H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 01/10] Use __kernel_long_t in struct timex H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:32 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 22:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 22:50 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 22:50 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 22:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 22:58 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 22:56 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-17 22:57 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 23:51 ` David Daney
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 02/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct shm_info H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 03/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t in linux/resource.h H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 04/10] Use __kernel_long_t in struct msgbuf H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 05/10] Use __kernel_long_t in struct mq_attr H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 06/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in x86 struct semid64_ds H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 07/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct shmid64_ds/shminfo64 H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 08/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct msqid64_ds H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 23:51 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 0:07 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-18 0:14 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 0:22 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-18 0:27 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 0:41 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-18 11:44 ` David Howells
2012-05-18 21:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-18 21:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 21:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-18 22:08 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2012-05-19 7:56 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-19 14:35 ` Al Viro
2012-05-18 0:29 ` David Daney
2012-05-18 0:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 0:45 ` David Daney
2012-05-18 0:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 15:03 ` Chris Metcalf
2012-05-18 3:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 3:39 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 3:43 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 3:47 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 3:49 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-18 3:55 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 3:59 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 4:05 ` Linus Torvalds
2012-05-18 4:13 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 21:21 ` Arnd Bergmann
2012-05-19 23:47 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-20 1:32 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-20 2:08 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 11:53 ` David Howells
2012-05-18 12:06 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 3:56 ` H.J. Lu
2012-05-18 21:06 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 09/10] Use __kernel_ulong_t in struct ipc64_perm H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 22:13 ` [PATCH 10/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t in x86-64 struct stat H.J. Lu
2012-05-17 23:07 ` [RFC PATCH 00/10] Use __kernel_[u]long_t for x32 user space compatibility David Daney
2012-05-17 23:11 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-17 23:25 ` David Daney
2012-05-17 23:31 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 0:19 ` Mike Frysinger
2012-05-18 0:21 ` H. Peter Anvin
2012-05-18 0:38 ` Mike Frysinger
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