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Eric Paris
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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] [[email protected]: enhance the comment describing the reasons for using aligned_u64. Via Andreas and Andi.] Based-on-patch-by: Andreas Gruenbacher <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Eric Paris <[email protected]> Cc: Jan Engelhardt <[email protected]> Cc: David Miller <[email protected]> Cc: Andi Kleen <[email protected]> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]> Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>