On Thursday 17 May 2012 18:13:26 H.J. Lu wrote:
> From: H.J. Lu <hjl.tools@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> This patch set changes a number of places where the kernel headers are
> exported to user space and currently use explicit "long" or "unsigned
> long" to use __kernel_[u]long_t in order to be compatible with the x32
> user space ABI. These location are places where x32 uses the x86-64
> ABI.
>
> It is quite possible that some, or even all, of these locations should
> really use dedicated types, but in the meantime this gives the correct
> results which the current headers do not.
tangentially related, but what happened to the x86 asm/ptrace.h patch i sent
that changed all the registers from unsigned long to u64 ? e.g.
struct pt_regs {
- unsigned long r15;
+ __u64 r15;
-mike
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