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bfa_aen_entry_s is passed through a netlink socket that can be read by either 32-bit or 64-bit processes, but the data format is different between the two on current implementations. Originally, this was using a 'struct timeval', which also suffers from getting redefined with a new libc implementation. With this patch, the layout gets fixed to having two 64-bit members for the time, making it the same on 32-bit kernels and 64-bit kernels running either compat or native user space including x32. Provided that the new header file gets used to recompile any 32-bit application binaries, this will fix running those on a 64-bit kernel (with or without this patch) e.g. in a container environment, and it will make binaries work that will be built against a future 32-bit glibc that uses a 64-bit time_t, and avoid the y2038 overflow there. However, this also breaks compatibility with any existing 32-bit binary running on a native 32-bit kernel, those must be recompiled against the new header, which in turn makes them incompatible with older kernels unless the same change gets applied there. Obviously this patch should only be applied when the benefits outweigh the possible breakage. I'm posting it under the assumption that there are no open-source tools using the netlink interface, and that users of the binaries provided by qlogic for SLES10/11 and RHEL5/6 are not actually being used on new future systems with 32-bit x86 kernels. Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> Acked-by: Anil Gurumurthy <Anil.Gurumurthy@cavium.com> Signed-off-by: Martin K. Petersen <martin.petersen@oracle.com> |
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README
Linux kernel ============ This file was moved to Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst Please notice that there are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or ``make pdfdocs``. There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory, several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation. See Documentation/00-INDEX for a list of what is contained in each file. Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.