This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
alpha-uapi-add-support-for-__sane_userspace_types__.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
>From cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 01:35:55 +0100
Subject: alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__
From: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
commit cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 upstream.
This fixes compiler errors in perf such as:
tests/attr.c: In function 'store_event':
tests/attr.c:66:27: error: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64 {aka long unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/event-%d-%llu-%d", dir,
^
Signed-off-by: Ben Hutchings <ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Tested-by: Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
---
arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h | 2 +-
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h | 12 +++++++++++-
2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
--- a/arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h
@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
#ifndef _ALPHA_TYPES_H
#define _ALPHA_TYPES_H
-#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
+#include <uapi/asm/types.h>
#endif /* _ALPHA_TYPES_H */
--- a/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h
+++ b/arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h
@@ -9,8 +9,18 @@
* need to be careful to avoid a name clashes.
*/
-#ifndef __KERNEL__
+/*
+ * This is here because we used to use l64 for alpha
+ * 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(__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__) && !defined(__KERNEL__)
#include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
+#else
+#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
#endif
#endif /* _UAPI_ALPHA_TYPES_H */
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from ben@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx are
queue-4.9/alpha-uapi-add-support-for-__sane_userspace_types__.patch