Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit powerpc

From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 6/6] perf_counter: tools: Makefile tweaks for 64-bit powerpc
Date: Fri, 19 Jun 2009 18:27:18 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20090619162718.GB15197@elte.hu> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <19003.18793.605755.277949@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com>

* Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org> wrote:

> Ingo Molnar writes:
> 
> > Note, i left out this bit from the commit - we need to find a 
> > better solution than to allow ugly warnings on PowerPC.
> > 
> > Could we use the kernel's u64 type directly perhaps? That would 
> > allow us to change all __u64 to u64 in all of tools/perf/ which 
> > is a nice clean-up in any case.
> 
> This is userspace, we can use "u64" however we like. :) I'll cook 
> up a patch to add "typedef unsigned long long u64" and change 
> __u64 to u64.

Thanks, i've applied the patch. Note, it crossed with a few changes 
from Peter - i fixed up the conflicts - please double check whether 
it's still fine on PowerPC too.

	Ingo