mm/pkeys: Fix siginfo ABI breakage caused by new u64 field
Stephen Rothwell reported this linux-next build failure: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20160226164406.065a1ffc@canb.auug.org.au ... caused by the Memory Protection Keys patches from the tip tree triggering a newly introduced build-time sanity check on an ARM build, because they changed the ABI of siginfo in an unexpected way. If u64 has a natural alignment of 8 bytes (which is the case on most mainstream platforms, with the notable exception of x86-32), then the leadup to the _sifields union matters: typedef struct siginfo { int si_signo; int si_errno; int si_code; union { ... } _sifields; } __ARCH_SI_ATTRIBUTES siginfo_t; Note how the first 3 fields give us 12 bytes, so _sifields is not 8 naturally bytes aligned. Before the _pkey field addition the largest element of _sifields (on 32-bit platforms) was 32 bits. With the u64 added, the minimum alignment requirement increased to 8 bytes on those (rare) 32...
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