On February 27, 2016 10:35:28 AM PST, Linus Torvalds <torvalds@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 6:58 AM, Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>wrote:
>>
>> Paul's patches have the following structure:
>>
>> struct thread_local_abi {
>> union {
>> struct {
>> u32 cpu_id;
>> u32 seq;
>> };
>> u64 cpu_seq;
>> };
>> unsigned long post_commit_ip;
>> };
>
>Please don't do "unsigned long" in ABI structures any more.
>
>Make it u64, and make sure it is 64-bit aligned (which it would be in
>this case). Make it so that we don't have to have separate compat
>paths.
>
> Linus
Yes, if we have to do compat crap for this entire new ABI path I think I'll scream.
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