Hi Linus,
On Sat, Feb 27, 2016 at 7:35 PM, 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.
__alignof__(u64) is not 8 on all architectures.
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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