[NETFILTER]: introduce and use aligned_u64 data type

[net-next-2.6.git] / include / linux / types.h

diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index dcb13f865df97ccee9a7764fa247fec754f0609a..2b678c22ca4a0dead6fac2672f76d365ed8945f6 100644 (file)
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@ typedef             __u64           u_int64_t;
 typedef                __s64           int64_t;
 #endif
 
+/* this is a special 64bit data type that is 8-byte aligned */
+#define aligned_u64 unsigned long long __attribute__((aligned(8)))
+
 /*
  * The type used for indexing onto a disc or disc partition.
  * If required, asm/types.h can override it and define