Thread (6 messages) 6 messages, 3 authors, 2016-03-01

Re: [PATCH] [v3] x86, pkeys: fix siginfo ABI breakage from new field

From: Stephen Rothwell <hidden>
Date: 2016-02-29 22:33:21
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Hi Dave,

On Mon, 29 Feb 2016 14:17:33 -0800 Dave Hansen [off-list ref] wrote:
To fix this, we replace the u64 with an '__u32'.  The __u32 is
guaranteed to union well with the pointers from _addr_bnd.  It is
also plenty large enough to store the 16-bit pkey we have today
on x86.
That looks better, thanks.

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell
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