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Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2012 18:33:56 -0800
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 02/30] x86-64: Use explicit sizes in sigcontext.h, prepare
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On 02/22/2012 01:23 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 
> I'd say we should fix at least the ones that are easy to spot because
> they already use compat_u64 or have an #ifdef CONFIG_X86_64 in compat
> code. I've looked at everything I could find that fits into that category
> and found only two locations. My expectation is that all other data
> structures that would fall into this category are already broken
> for 32 bit emulation on x86.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> 

Would you mind sending these as patches to the respective maintainers?
Since they don't depend on the x32 patchset per se it's probably the
best way to handle this.

Feel free to include my Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@zytor.com>.

	-hpa

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H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel.  I don't speak on their behalf.

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