[ovs-dev] [tun_id64 3/4] datapath: Add __aligned_u64 compat support for user and kernel headers.

Jesse Gross jesse at nicira.com
Wed Dec 1 23:11:28 UTC 2010


On Tue, Nov 30, 2010 at 5:16 PM, Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com> wrote:
> __aligned_u64 is a 64-bit integer type that is guaranteed to be aligned on
> a 64-bit boundary.  It is used in ABI structures to allow them to be shared
> between 32- and 64-bit userspace without the need for kernel compat code.
> The first use in OVS is coming up in this series of patches.
>
> Signed-off-by: Ben Pfaff <blp at nicira.com>

Acked-by: Jesse Gross <jesse at nicira.com>




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