asm-generic: introduce asm/bitsperlong.h

This provides a reliable way for asm-generic/types.h and other
files to find out if it is running on a 32 or 64 bit platform.

We cannot use CONFIG_64BIT for this in headers that are included
from user space because CONFIG symbols are not available there.
We also cannot do it inside of asm/types.h because some headers
need the word size but cannot include types.h.

The solution is to introduce a new header <asm/bitsperlong.h>
that defines both __BITS_PER_LONG for user space and
BITS_PER_LONG for usage in the kernel. The asm-generic
version falls back to 32 bit unless the architecture overrides
it, which I did for all 64 bit platforms.

Signed-off-by: Remis Lima Baima <remis.developer@googlemail.com>
Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

2 files changed, 13 insertions, 6 deletions

diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/bitsperlong.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitsperlong.h
new file mode 100644
index 00000000000..b0ae1c4dc79
--- /dev/null
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/bitsperlong.h
@@ -0,0 +1,13 @@
+#ifndef __ASM_X86_BITSPERLONG_H
+#define __ASM_X86_BITSPERLONG_H
+
+#ifdef __x86_64__
+# define __BITS_PER_LONG 64
+#else
+# define __BITS_PER_LONG 32
+#endif
+
+#include <asm-generic/bitsperlong.h>
+
+#endif /* __ASM_X86_BITSPERLONG_H */
+
diff --git a/arch/x86/include/asm/types.h b/arch/x86/include/asm/types.h
index e6f73632007..09b97745772 100644
--- a/arch/x86/include/asm/types.h
+++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/types.h
@@ -14,12 +14,6 @@ typedef unsigned short umode_t;
  */
 #ifdef __KERNEL__
 
-#ifdef CONFIG_X86_32
-# define BITS_PER_LONG 32
-#else
-# define BITS_PER_LONG 64
-#endif
-
 #ifndef __ASSEMBLY__
 
 typedef u64 dma64_addr_t;