Re: [PATCH XEN] xen: event channel arrays are xen_ulong_t and not unsigned long

[Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com>]

On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 08:48 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >>> On 22.02.13 at 09:28, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> > On Fri, 2013-02-22 at 08:12 +0000, Jan Beulich wrote:
> >> >>> On 21.02.13 at 18:16, Ian Campbell <Ian.Campbell@citrix.com> wrote:
> >> > On Tue, 2013-02-19 at 14:49 +0000, Ian Campbell wrote:
> >> >> On ARM we want these to be the same size on 32- and 64-bit.
> >> >> 
> >> >> This is an ABI change on ARM. X86 does not change.
> >> >> 
> >> >> Signed-off-by: Ian Campbell <ian.campbell@citrix.com>
> >> >> Cc: Jan Beulich <JBeulich@suse.com>
> >> >> Cc: Keir (Xen.org) <keir@xen.org>
> >> > 
> >> > Are you guys (un)happy with this change from the Xen & x86 side?
> >> 
> >> I don't see any problem with it.
> > 
> > I'll take this as an Acked-by if that's ok with you.
> 
> Well, I specifically didn't say "ack": I don't really mind the change,
> but I'm also not eager see it go in. Not seeing a problem with it
> doesn't really mean there's none lurking - type changes in public
> interfaces are always an at least slightly risky business.

For x86 there is no change here since:
xen/include/public/arch-x86/xen.h:typedef unsigned long xen_ulong_t;

Also the tools/include/xen-foreign checks show no change in the size of
things on x86.

On ARM the change is deliberate, if there is any fallout we can fix it.

Ian.