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From: Sodagudi Prasad <psodagud@codeaurora.org>
To: linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Cc: gregkh@linuxfoundation.org
Subject: opaque types instead of union epoll_data
Date: Tue, 07 Mar 2017 04:31:19 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <c06a9ceff1f2c8919ca81120de69f172@codeaurora.org> (raw)

Hi All,

uapi structs epoll_data are more opaque than user space expects. kernel 
have defined as __u64 instead of the union epoll_data.
Because of this libc have redefined struct epoll_event with union data 
member.

https://android.googlesource.com/platform/bionic.git/+/master/libc/include/sys/epoll.h
typedef union epoll_data {
   void* ptr;
   int fd;
   uint32_t u32;
   uint64_t u64;
} epoll_data_t;
struct epoll_event {
   uint32_t events;
   epoll_data_t data;
}

Kernel UAPI header defined as "include/uapi/linux/eventpoll.h"
struct epoll_event {
         __u32 events;
         __u64 data;  =====>opaque type instead of union epoll_data
} EPOLL_PACKED;


Because of this we are landing into some issues as we copy kernel 
headers. Will it be going to be addressed?

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             reply	other threads:[~2017-03-07 12:33 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2017-03-07 12:31 Sodagudi Prasad [this message]
2017-03-07 14:33 ` opaque types instead of union epoll_data Carlos O'Donell
2017-03-07 17:59   ` Greg KH
2017-03-08 17:34     ` Carlos O'Donell
2017-03-08 18:01       ` Greg KH

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