Re: [PATCH] x86: make stat/statfs 64-bit for x86_64 kernels

[Mike Frysinger]

On Thursday 09 May 2013 00:18:15 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> On 05/08/2013 09:08 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> > On Thursday 09 May 2013 00:04:03 H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> >> On 05/08/2013 09:00 PM, Mike Frysinger wrote:
> >>> When including these headers in the x32 ABI, the structs get
> >>> declared with 32bit sizes which is incorrect.  Use long long
> >>> and such to make it work both with x32 and x86_64.
> >> 
> >> I'm not sure if it is okay to change the types, even within the
> >> same size.  Perhaps use __u64/__s64?
> > 
> > sorry, i don't follow.  changing types isn't ok (unsigned long to
> > unsigned long long), but changing to __u64 is ok (unsigned long to
> > __u64 which is typedefed to unsigned long long) ?
> > 
> > i don't have a problem using __u64/__s64, i just don't understand
> > your logic.
> 
> In userspace, __u64 is often defined as "unsigned long" on 64 bits.

my tests would seem to indicate otherwise, at least for x86:
$ gcc -E - <<<"#include <linux/types.h>" | grep '__u64;'
__extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;

$ gcc -m32 -E - <<<"#include <linux/types.h>" | grep '__u64;'
__extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;

$ gcc -mx32 -E - <<<"#include <linux/types.h>" | grep '__u64;'
__extension__ typedef unsigned long long __u64;

and doing a printf("%i\n", sizeof(__u64)) shows 8 for each of the above builds
-mike

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