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2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Warn about LS MCEs on F14hBorislav Petkov
F14h CPUs do not generate LS MCEs so exit early and warn the user in case this path is ever hit that something else might be going haywire. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Adjust IC decoders to F14hBorislav Petkov
Add support for IC MCEs for F14h CPUs. K8 and F10h are almost identical so use one function for both. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Adjust DC decoders to F14hBorislav Petkov
Add a per-family data cache decoders. Since there is a certain overlap between the different DC MCE signatures, reuse functionality between the families as far as possible. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Rename filesBorislav Petkov
Drop "edac_" string from the filenames since they're prefixed with edac/ in their pathname anyway. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Rework MCE injectionBorislav Petkov
Add sysfs injection facilities for testing of the MCE decoding code. Remove large parts of amd64_edac_dbg.c, as a result, which did only NB MCE injection anyway and the new injection code supports that functionality already. Add an injection module so that MCE decoding code in production kernels like those in RHEL and SLES can be tested. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC: Export edac sysfs class to users.Borislav Petkov
Move toplevel sysfs class to the stub and make it available to non-modularized code too. Add proper refcounting of its users and move the registration functionality into the reference counting routines. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Pass complete MCE info to decodersBorislav Petkov
... instead of the MCi_STATUS info only for improved handling of certain types of errors later. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Sanitize error codesBorislav Petkov
Clean up error codes names, shorten to mnemonics, add RRRR boundary checking. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Remove unused function parameterBorislav Petkov
Remove remains from previous functionality. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC, MCE: Add HW_ERR prefixBorislav Petkov
.. so that the user knows what she's looking at there in dmesg. Also, fix a minor cosmetic output inconsistency. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-21EDAC: Fix error returnBorislav Petkov
We should return a negative value when we cannot get the toplevel edac sysfs class. Signed-off-by: Borislav Petkov <borislav.petkov@amd.com>
2010-10-20Linux 2.6.36v2.6.36Linus Torvalds
2010-10-20Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: O32 compat/N32: Fix to use compat syscall wrappers for AIO syscalls. MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial. SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failure MIPS: jz4740: Fix Kbuild Platform file. MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.
2010-10-20virtio: console: Don't block entire guest if host doesn't read dataAmit Shah
If the host is slow in reading data or doesn't read data at all, blocking write calls not only blocked the program that called write() but the entire guest itself. To overcome this, let's not block till the host signals it has given back the virtio ring element we passed it. Instead, send the buffer to the host and return to userspace. This operation then becomes similar to how non-blocking writes work, so let's use the existing code for this path as well. This code change also ensures blocking write calls do get blocked if there's not enough room in the virtio ring as well as they don't return -EAGAIN to userspace. Signed-off-by: Amit Shah <amit.shah@redhat.com> Acked-by: Hans de Goede <hdegoede@redhat.com> CC: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Rusty Russell <rusty@rustcorp.com.au> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-20Merge git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6Linus Torvalds
* git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/jejb/scsi-rc-fixes-2.6: [SCSI] bsg: fix incorrect device_status value [SCSI] Fix VPD inquiry page wrapper
2010-10-20Merge branch 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvmLinus Torvalds
* 'kvm-updates/2.6.36' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: KVM: Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldt
2010-10-19MIPS: O32 compat/N32: Fix to use compat syscall wrappers for AIO syscalls.Michel Thebeau
[Ralf: Michel's original patch only fixed N32; I replicated the same fix for O32.] Signed-off-by: Michel Thebeau <michel.thebeau@windriver.com> Cc: paul.gortmaker@windriver.com Cc: bruce.ashfield@windriver.com Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-19MAINTAINERS: Change list for ioc_serial to linux-serial.Ralf Baechle
IOC3 is also being used on SGI MIPS systems but this particular driver is only being used on IA64 systems so linux-mips made no sense as a list. Pat also thinks linux-serial@vger.kernel.org is the better list. Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-19SERIAL: ioc3_serial: Return -ENOMEM on memory allocation failureJulia Lawall
In this code, 0 is returned on memory allocation failure, even though other failures return -ENOMEM or other similar values. A simplified version of the semantic match that finds this problem is as follows: (http://coccinelle.lip6.fr/) // <smpl> @@ expression ret; expression x,e1,e2,e3; @@ ret = 0 ... when != ret = e1 *x = \(kmalloc\|kcalloc\|kzalloc\)(...) ... when != ret = e2 if (x == NULL) { ... when != ret = e3 return ret; } // </smpl> Signed-off-by: Julia Lawall <julia@diku.dk> To: Pat Gefre <pfg@sgi.com> Cc: kernel-janitors@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1704/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-19MIPS: jz4740: Fix Kbuild Platform file.David Daney
The platform specific files should be included via the platform-y variable. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Lars-Peter Clausen <lars@metafoo.de> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1719/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-19MIPS: Repair Kbuild make clean breakage.David Daney
When running make clean, Kbuild doesn't process the .config file, so nothing generates a platform-y variable. We can get it to descend into the platform directories by setting $(obj-). The dec Platform file was unconditionally setting platform-, obliterating its previous contents and preventing some directories from being cleaned. This is change to an append operation '+=' to allow cavium-octeon to be cleaned. Signed-off-by: David Daney <ddaney@caviumnetworks.com> Cc: Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org> Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1718/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-19Merge branch 'drm-fixes' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6 * 'drm-fixes' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/airlied/drm-2.6: drm/radeon/kms: avivo cursor workaround applies to evergreen as well
2010-10-19KVM: Fix fs/gs reload oops with invalid ldtAvi Kivity
kvm reloads the host's fs and gs blindly, however the underlying segment descriptors may be invalid due to the user modifying the ldt after loading them. Fix by using the safe accessors (loadsegment() and load_gs_index()) instead of home grown unsafe versions. This is CVE-2010-3698. KVM-Stable-Tag. Signed-off-by: Avi Kivity <avi@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Marcelo Tosatti <mtosatti@redhat.com>
2010-10-18Merge branch 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linusLinus Torvalds
* 'upstream' of git://git.linux-mips.org/pub/scm/upstream-linus: MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failure MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.h MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean" MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointers MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stack MIPS: Sanitize restart logics MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0. MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframe
2010-10-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/dtor/input: Input: evdev - fix EVIOCSABS regression Input: evdev - fix Ooops in EVIOCGABS/EVIOCSABS
2010-10-18Merge branch 'for-linus' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6 * 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/ieee1394/linux1394-2.6: firewire: ohci: fix TI TSB82AA2 regression since 2.6.35
2010-10-18mxc_nand: do not depend on disabling the irq in the interrupt handlerSascha Hauer
This patch reverts the driver to enabling/disabling the NFC interrupt mask rather than enabling/disabling the system interrupt. This cleans up the driver so that it doesn't rely on interrupts being disabled within the interrupt handler. For i.MX21 we keep the current behaviour, that is calling enable_irq/disable_irq_nosync to enable/disable interrupts. This patch is based on earlier work by John Ogness. Signed-off-by: Sascha Hauer <s.hauer@pengutronix.de> Acked-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Tested-by: John Ogness <john.ogness@linutronix.de> Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-18Merge branch 'for-linus/i2c/2636-rc8' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linuxLinus Torvalds
* 'for-linus/i2c/2636-rc8' of git://git.fluff.org/bjdooks/linux: i2c-imx: do not allow interruptions when waiting for I2C to complete i2c-davinci: Fix TX setup for more SoCs
2010-10-18Merge branch 'fixes'Linus Torvalds
* fixes: v4l1: fix 32-bit compat microcode loading translation De-pessimize rds_page_copy_user
2010-10-18MIPS: Enable ISA_DMA_API config to fix build failureNamhyung Kim
Add ISA_DMA_API config item and select it when GENERIC_ISA_DMA enabled. This fixes build failure on allmodconfig like following: CC sound/isa/es18xx.o sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback1_prepare': sound/isa/es18xx.c:501:9: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_program' sound/isa/es18xx.c: In function 'snd_es18xx_playback_pointer': sound/isa/es18xx.c:818:3: error: implicit declaration of function 'snd_dma_pointer' make[3]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [sound/isa/es18xx.o] Error 2 make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1717/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: 32-bit: Fix build failure in asm/fcntl.hNamhyung Kim
CC security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o In file included from linux/include/linux/fcntl.h:4:0, from linux/security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.c:18: linux/arch/mips/include/asm/fcntl.h:63:2: error: expected specifier-qualifier-list before 'off_t' make[3]: *** [security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o] Error 1 make[2]: *** [security/integrity/ima/ima_fs.o] Error 2 make[1]: *** [sub-make] Error 2 make: *** [all] Error 2 Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@gmail.com> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1715/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: Remove all generated vmlinuz* files on "make clean"Wu Zhangjin
[Ralf: I changed the patch to explicitly list all files to be deleted out of paranoia.] Signed-off-by: Wu Zhangjin <wuzhangjin@gmail.com> Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1590/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: do_sigaltstack() expects userland pointersAl Viro
o32 compat does the right thing, native and n32 compat do not... Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: http://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1700/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: Fix error values in case of bad_stackAl Viro
We want EFAULT, not -<syscall number> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1699/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: Sanitize restart logicsAl Viro
Put the original syscall number into ->regs[0] when we leave syscall with error. Use it in restart logics. Everything else will have it 0 since we pass through SAVE_SOME on all the ways in. Note that in places like bad_stack and inllegal_syscall we leave it 0 - it's not restartable. Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1698/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: secure_computing, syscall audit: syscall number should in r2, not r0.Al Viro
As it is, audit_syscall_entry() and secure_computing() get the bogus value (0, in fact) Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1697/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18MIPS: Don't block signals if we'd failed to setup a sigframeAl Viro
Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org Cc: linux-mips@linux-mips.org Patchwork: https://patchwork.linux-mips.org/patch/1696/ Signed-off-by: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
2010-10-18Input: evdev - fix EVIOCSABS regressionDaniel Mack
448cd16 ("Input: evdev - rearrange ioctl handling") broke EVIOCSABS by checking for the wrong direction bit. Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com> Reported-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> Tested-by: Sven Neumann <s.neumann@raumfeld.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-10-18Input: evdev - fix Ooops in EVIOCGABS/EVIOCSABSDaniel Mack
This fixes a regression introduced by the dynamic allocation of absinfo for input devices. We need to bail out early for input devices which don't have absolute axis. [ 929.664303] Pid: 2989, comm: input Not tainted 2.6.36-rc8+ #14 MS-7260/MS-7260 [ 929.664318] EIP: 0060:[<c12bdc01>] EFLAGS: 00010246 CPU: 0 [ 929.664331] EIP is at evdev_ioctl+0x4f8/0x59f [ 929.664341] EAX: 00000040 EBX: 00000000 ECX: 00000006 EDX: f45a1efc [ 929.664355] ESI: 00000000 EDI: f45a1efc EBP: f45a1f24 ESP: f45a1eb8 [ 929.664369] DS: 007b ES: 007b FS: 00d8 GS: 0033 SS: 0068 [ 929.664402] f470da74 f6a30e78 f462c240 00000018 bfe4a260 00000000 f45b06fc 00000000 [ 929.664429] <0> 000000c4 b769d000 c3544620 f470da74 f45b06fc f45b06fc f45a1f38 c107dd1f [ 929.664458] <0> f4710b74 000000c4 00000000 00000000 00000000 0000029d 00000a74 f4710b74 [ 929.664500] [<c107dd1f>] ? handle_mm_fault+0x2be/0x59a [ 929.664513] [<c12bd709>] ? evdev_ioctl+0x0/0x59f [ 929.664524] [<c1099d30>] ? do_vfs_ioctl+0x494/0x4d9 [ 929.664538] [<c10432a1>] ? up_read+0x16/0x29 [ 929.664550] [<c101c818>] ? do_page_fault+0x2ff/0x32d [ 929.664564] [<c108d048>] ? do_sys_open+0xc5/0xcf [ 929.664575] [<c1099db6>] ? sys_ioctl+0x41/0x61 [ 929.664587] [<c1002710>] ? sysenter_do_call+0x12/0x36 [ 929.684570] ---[ end trace 11b83e923bd8f2bb ]--- Signed-off-by: Daniel Mack <zonque@gmail.com> Signed-off-by: Dmitry Torokhov <dtor@mail.ru>
2010-10-18i2c-imx: do not allow interruptions when waiting for I2C to completeMarc Kleine-Budde
The i2c_imx_trx_complete() function is using wait_event_interruptible_timeout() to wait for the I2C controller to signal that it has completed an I2C bus operation. If the process that causes the I2C operation receives a signal, the wait will be interrupted, returning an error. It is better to let the I2C operation finished before handling the signal (i.e. returning into userspace). It is safe to use wait_event_timeout() instead, because the timeout will allow the process to exit if the I2C bus hangs. It's also better to allow the I2C operation to finish, because unacknowledged I2C operations can cause the I2C bus to hang. Signed-off-by: Marc Kleine-Budde <mkl@pengutronix.de> Reviewed-by: Wolfram Sang <w.sang@pengutronix.de> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
2010-10-18i2c-davinci: Fix TX setup for more SoCsJon Povey
This patch is an improvement to 4bba0fd8d1c6d405df666e2573e1a1f917098be0 which got to mainline a little early. Sudhakar Rajashekhara explains that at least OMAP-L138 requires MDR mode settings before DXR for correct behaviour, so load MDR first with STT cleared and later load again with STT set. Tested on DM355 connected to Techwell TW2836 and Wolfson WM8985 Signed-off-by: Jon Povey <jon.povey@racelogic.co.uk> Acked-by: Troy Kisky <troy.kisky@boundarydevices.com> Tested-by: Sudhakar Rajashekhara <sudhakar.raj@ti.com> Acked-by: Kevin Hilman <khilman@deeprootsystems.com> Signed-off-by: Ben Dooks <ben-linux@fluff.org>
2010-10-18drm/radeon/kms: avivo cursor workaround applies to evergreen as wellAlex Deucher
Fixes cursor corruption in certain cases. Signed-off-by: Alex Deucher <alexdeucher@gmail.com> Cc: stable@kernel.org Signed-off-by: Dave Airlie <airlied@redhat.com>
2010-10-17Merge branch 'fix/misc' of ↵Linus Torvalds
git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6 * 'fix/misc' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tiwai/sound-2.6: ALSA: rawmidi: fix oops (use after free) when unloading a driver module
2010-10-17firewire: ohci: fix TI TSB82AA2 regression since 2.6.35Stefan Richter
Revert commit 54672386ccf36ffa21d1de8e75624af83f9b0eeb "firewire: ohci: fix up configuration of TI chips". It caused massive slow-down and data corruption with a TSB82AA2 based StarTech EC1394B2 ExpressCard and FireWire 800 harddisks. https://bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+source/linux/+bug/657081 http://thread.gmane.org/gmane.linux.kernel.firewire.user/4013 The fact that some card EEPROMs do not program these enhancements may be related to TSB81BA3 phy chip errata, if not to bugs of TSB82AA2 itself. We could re-add these configuration steps, but only conditional on a whitelist of cards on which these enhancements bring a proven positive effect. Reported-and-tested-by: Eric Shattow <lucent@gmail.com> Cc: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Cc: <stable@kernel.org> 2.6.35 Signed-off-by: Stefan Richter <stefanr@s5r6.in-berlin.de>
2010-10-17ALSA: rawmidi: fix oops (use after free) when unloading a driver moduleClemens Ladisch
When a driver module is unloaded and the last still open file is a raw MIDI device, the card and its devices will be actually freed in the snd_card_file_remove() call when that file is closed. Afterwards, rmidi and rmidi->card point into freed memory, so the module pointer is likely to be garbage. (This was introduced by commit 9a1b64caac82aa02cb74587ffc798e6f42c6170a.) Signed-off-by: Clemens Ladisch <clemens@ladisch.de> Reported-by: Krzysztof Foltman <wdev@foltman.com> Cc: 2.6.30-2.6.35 <stable@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Takashi Iwai <tiwai@suse.de>
2010-10-15m32r: test __LITTLE_ENDIAN__ instead of __LITTLE_ENDIANKyle McMartin
Fixes build for me... these are what's tested in byteorder.h... Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-15m32r: add kernel/.gitignore and ignore vmlinux.ldsKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-15m32r: get_user takes an lvalue, not a pointerKyle McMartin
Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Acked-by: Al "my fuckup" Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-15m32r: restore _BLOCKABLEKyle McMartin
Commit a7f8388e accidentally removed it... Al explains: "Sorry, reordering breakage. In the signals tree here I have static inline void sig_set_blocked(struct sigset_t *set) ... and it's used all over the place (including quite a few places where we currently have sigprocmask(SIG_SETMASK, set, NULL), which is what it's equivalent to). With that done, m32r doesn't use _BLOCKABLE anywhere, so it got removed. And that chunk got picked when I'd been reordering the queue to pull the arch-specific fixes in front. Sorry." Signed-off-by: Kyle McMartin <kyle@redhat.com> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
2010-10-15types.h: define __aligned_u64 and expose to userspaceEric Paris
We currently have a kernel internal type called aligned_u64 which aligns __u64's on 8 bytes boundaries even on systems which would normally align them on 4 byte boundaries. This patch creates a new type __aligned_u64 which does the same thing but which is exposed to userspace rather than being kernel internal. [akpm: merge early as both the net and audit trees want this] [akpm@linux-foundation.org: enhance the comment describing the reasons for using aligned_u64. Via Andreas and Andi.] Based-on-patch-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <agruen@suse.de> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <eparis@redhat.com> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@medozas.de> Cc: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net> Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>