Thread (9 messages) 9 messages, 2 authors, 2023-08-29

[PATCH v1 1/3] types: Complement the aligned types with signed 64-bit one

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From: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Date: 2023-08-15 15:42:03
Also in: linux-iio, lkml
Subsystem: the rest · Maintainer: Linus Torvalds

Some user may want to use aligned signed 64-bit type.
Provide it for them.

Signed-off-by: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
---
 include/linux/types.h      | 3 ++-
 include/uapi/linux/types.h | 1 +
 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index 253168bb3fe1..78d87c751ff5 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -115,8 +115,9 @@ typedef u64			u_int64_t;
 typedef s64			int64_t;
 #endif
 
-/* this is a special 64bit data type that is 8-byte aligned */
+/* These are the special 64-bit data types that are 8-byte aligned */
 #define aligned_u64		__aligned_u64
+#define aligned_s64		__aligned_s64
 #define aligned_be64		__aligned_be64
 #define aligned_le64		__aligned_le64
 
diff --git a/include/uapi/linux/types.h b/include/uapi/linux/types.h
index 6375a0684052..48b933938877 100644
--- a/include/uapi/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/uapi/linux/types.h
@@ -53,6 +53,7 @@ typedef __u32 __bitwise __wsum;
  * No conversions are necessary between 32-bit user-space and a 64-bit kernel.
  */
 #define __aligned_u64 __u64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
+#define __aligned_s64 __s64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
 #define __aligned_be64 __be64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
 #define __aligned_le64 __le64 __attribute__((aligned(8)))
 
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