Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 4 Feb 2016 08:41:42 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the aio tree |
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On Thu, Feb 04, 2016 at 01:19:59PM +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote: > Hi Benjamin, > > On Fri, 29 Jan 2016 13:03:39 +0100 Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote: > > > > On Fri, Jan 29, 2016 at 12:30 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux > > <linux@arm.linux.org.uk> wrote: > > >> Background: new aio code is adding __get_user() calls referencing 64 > > >> bit quantities (__u64 and __s64). > > > > > > There's lots more architectures which do not support 64-bit get_user() > > > _or_ __get_user(): avr32, blackfin, metag for example, and m68k which > > > has this interesting thing "/* case 8: disabled because gcc-4.1 has a > > > broken typeof \" in its *get_user() implementation. > > > > And if you enable it again, you get lots of "warning: cast to pointer from > > integer of different size", like you mentioned. > > Any thoughts? I am still using the version of tha aio tree from > next-20160111.
I am still convinced that this is an architecture issue. Given that 64 bit values work in the *get_user implementations on other architectures, I see no reason there should need to be a workaround for this in common code.
-ben
> -- > Cheers, > Stephen Rothwell
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