From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Received: from smtp.kernel.org (aws-us-west-2-korg-mail-1.web.codeaurora.org [10.30.226.201]) (using TLSv1.2 with cipher ECDHE-RSA-AES256-GCM-SHA384 (256/256 bits)) (No client certificate requested) by smtp.subspace.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPS id A88C2D518 for ; Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:12:50 +0000 (UTC) Received: by smtp.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTPSA id C9085C433C7; Thu, 17 Aug 2023 10:12:47 +0000 (UTC) Date: Thu, 17 Aug 2023 11:12:45 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: Will Deacon , Paul Walmsley , Palmer Dabbelt , Albert Ou , Tiezhu Yang , loongarch@lists.linux.dev, WANG Xuerui , Huacai Chen , Arnd Bergmann , Nathan Chancellor , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-riscv@lists.infradead.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: partially revert "Unify uapi bitsperlong.h for arm64, riscv and loongarch" Message-ID: References: <20230811204930.1529925-1-arnd@kernel.org> Precedence: bulk X-Mailing-List: loongarch@lists.linux.dev List-Id: List-Subscribe: List-Unsubscribe: MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <20230811204930.1529925-1-arnd@kernel.org> On Fri, Aug 11, 2023 at 10:49:07PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > From: Arnd Bergmann > > Unifying the asm-generic headers across 32-bit and 64-bit architectures > based on the compiler provided macros was a good idea and appears to work > with all user space, but it caused a regression when building old kernels > on systems that have the new headers installed in /usr/include, as this > combination trips an inconsistency in the kernel's own tools/include > headers that are a mix of userspace and kernel-internal headers. > > This affects kernel builds on arm64, riscv64 and loongarch64 systems that > might end up using the "#define __BITS_PER_LONG 32" default from the old > tools headers. Backporting the commit into stable kernels would address > this, but it would still break building kernels without that backport, > and waste time for developers trying to understand the problem. > > arm64 build machines are rather common, and on riscv64 this can also > happen in practice, but loongarch64 is probably new enough to not > be used much for building old kernels, so only revert the bits > for arm64 and riscv. > > Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230731160402.GB1823389@dev-arch.thelio-3990X/ > Reported-by: Nathan Chancellor > Fixes: 8386f58f8deda ("asm-generic: Unify uapi bitsperlong.h for arm64, riscv and loongarch") > Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann For arm64: Acked-by: Catalin Marinas