* Matt Evans <m...@ozlabs.org> wrote:
> PPC64 uses long long for u64 in the kernel, but powerpc's asm/types.h
> prevents 64-bit userland from seeing this definition, instead defaulting
> to u64 == long in userspace. Some user programs (e.g. kvmtool) may actually
> want LL64, so this patch adds a check for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ so that,
> if defined, int-ll64.h is included instead.
>
> Signed-off-by: Matt Evans <m...@ozlabs.org>
> ---
> arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h | 5 ++++-
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
> b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
> index 8947b98..d82e94e 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/types.h
> @@ -5,8 +5,11 @@
> * This is here because we used to use l64 for 64bit powerpc
> * and we don't want to impact user mode with our change to ll64
> * in the kernel.
> + *
> + * However, some user programs are fine with this. They can
> + * flag __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to get int-ll64.h here.
> */
> -#if defined(__powerpc64__) && !defined(__KERNEL__)
> +#if !defined(__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__) && defined(__powerpc64__) &&
> !defined(__KERNEL__)
Acked-by: Ingo Molnar <mi...@elte.hu>
Any other name would work too i guess.
Thanks,
Ingo
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