Messages in this thread | | | Date | Fri, 21 Feb 2014 12:59:07 -0800 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/3] staging: binder: Support concurrent 32 bit and 64 bit processes. | From | Arve Hjønnevåg <> |
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On Fri, Feb 21, 2014 at 12:43 PM, John Stultz <john.stultz@linaro.org> wrote: > From: Arve Hjønnevåg <arve@android.com> > > For 64bit systems we want to use the same binder interface for 32bit and > 64bit processes. Thus the size and the layout of the structures passed > between the kernel and the userspace has to be the same for both 32 and > 64bit processes. > > This change replaces all the uses of void* and size_t with > binder_uintptr_t and binder_size_t. These are then typedefed to specific > sizes depending on the use of the interface, as follows: > * __u32 - on legacy 32bit only userspace > * __u64 - on mixed 32/64bit userspace where all processes use the same > interface. > > This change also increments the BINDER_CURRENT_PROTOCOL_VERSION to 8 and > hooks the compat_ioctl entry for the mixed 32/64bit Android userspace. >
It only increments the version to 8 if the old 32 bit interface is not selected.
> This patch also provides a CONFIG_ANDROID_BINDER_IPC_32BIT option for > compatability, which if set which enables the old protocol on 32 bit > systems. > > Please note that all 64bit kernels will use the 64bit Binder ABI. >
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