Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756312AbXFONVe (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:21:34 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1753273AbXFONVY (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:21:24 -0400 Received: from gate.crashing.org ([63.228.1.57]:55002 "EHLO gate.crashing.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752651AbXFONVX (ORCPT ); Fri, 15 Jun 2007 09:21:23 -0400 Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt To: Andi Kleen Cc: Arnd Bergmann , David Woodhouse , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Dave Airlie , linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton In-Reply-To: <200706151440.10273.ak@suse.de> References: <200706150159.l5F1xNgM000459@hera.kernel.org> <200706151355.57464.ak@suse.de> <200706151403.53855.arnd@arndb.de> <200706151440.10273.ak@suse.de> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:19:43 +1000 Message-Id: <1181913584.26853.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.10.1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 519 Lines: 16 On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote: > > That is broken on all non-x86 architectures, > > It cannot be broken, it just might be somewhat slower It is because there is already code out there that expects the padding (32 bits userland code that is). Ben. - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/