From 822cfbff2ef49a08d1b9618d50f81b475d4f936c Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001 From: Chandra Seetharaman Date: Sun, 30 Jul 2006 03:03:04 -0700 Subject: [PATCH] Process Events: Fix biarch compatibility issue. use __u64 timestamp Events sent by Process Events Connector from a 64-bit kernel are not binary compatible with a 32-bit userspace program because the "timestamp" field (struct timespec) is not arch independent. This affects the fields that follow "timestamp" as they will be be off by 8 bytes. This is a problem for 32-bit userspace programs running with 64-bit kernels on ppc64, s390, x86-64.. any "biarch" system. Matt had submitted a different solution to lkml as an RFC earlier. We have since switched to a solution recommended by Evgeniy Polyakov. This patch fixes the problem by changing the timestamp to be a __u64, which stores the number of nanoseconds. Tested on a x86_64 system with both 32 bit application and 64 bit application and on a i386 system. Signed-off-by: Chandra Seetharaman Signed-off-by: Matt Helsley Cc: Evgeniy Polyakov Cc: Guillaume Thouvenin Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds --- include/linux/cn_proc.h | 3 ++- 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-) (limited to 'include/linux/cn_proc.h') diff --git a/include/linux/cn_proc.h b/include/linux/cn_proc.h index dbb7769009be..1c86d65bc4b9 100644 --- a/include/linux/cn_proc.h +++ b/include/linux/cn_proc.h @@ -57,7 +57,8 @@ struct proc_event { PROC_EVENT_EXIT = 0x80000000 } what; __u32 cpu; - struct timespec timestamp; + __u64 __attribute__((aligned(8))) timestamp_ns; + /* Number of nano seconds since system boot */ union { /* must be last field of proc_event struct */ struct { __u32 err; -- cgit v1.2.3