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

Ben Pfaff blp at nicira.com
Fri Dec 3 17:36:44 UTC 2010


On Wed, Dec 01, 2010 at 03:11:28PM -0800, Jesse Gross wrote:
> 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>

Thanks for the acks.  I pushed 1, 2, and 3, and I'm working on the
revised version of 4.




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