Patch "alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__" has been added to the 4.9-stable tree

This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled

alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__

to the 4.9-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary

The filename of the patch is:
alpha-uapi-add-support-for-__sane_userspace_types__.patch
and it can be found in the queue-4.9 subdirectory.

If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree, please let <[email protected]> know about it.

From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>
Date: Thu, 1 Oct 2015 01:35:55 +0100
Subject: alpha: uapi: Add support for __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__

From: Ben Hutchings <[email protected]>

commit cec80d82142ab25c71eee24b529cfeaf17c43062 upstream.

This fixes compiler errors in perf such as:

tests/attr.c: In function 'store_event':
tests/attr.c:66:27: error: format '%llu' expects argument of type 'long long unsigned int', but argument 6 has type '__u64 {aka long unsigned int}' [-Werror=format=]
snprintf(path, PATH_MAX, "%s/event-%d-%llu-%d", dir,

                           ^

---
 arch/alpha/include/asm/types.h      |    2 +-
 arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/types.h |   12 +++++++++++-
 2 files changed, 12 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

@@ -1,6 +1,6 @@
 #ifndef _ALPHA_TYPES_H
 #define _ALPHA_TYPES_H
 
-#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
+#include <uapi/asm/types.h>
 
 #endif /* _ALPHA_TYPES_H */

@@ -9,8 +9,18 @@
  * need to be careful to avoid a name clashes.
  */
 
-#ifndef __KERNEL__
+/*
+ * This is here because we used to use l64 for alpha
+ * and we don't want to impact user mode with our change to ll64
+ * in the kernel.
+ *
+ * However, some user programs are fine with this.  They can
+ * flag __SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__ to get int-ll64.h here.
+ */
+#if !defined(__SANE_USERSPACE_TYPES__) && !defined(__KERNEL__)
 #include <asm-generic/int-l64.h>
+#else
+#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
 #endif
 
 #endif /* _UAPI_ALPHA_TYPES_H */

Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are

queue-4.9/alpha-uapi-add-support-for-__sane_userspace_types__.patch