[NETFILTER]: introduce and use aligned_u64 data type
As proposed by Andi Kleen, this is required esp. for x86_64 architecture,
where 64bit code needs 8byte aligned 64bit data types, but 32bit userspace
apps will only align to 4bytes.
Signed-off-by: Harald Welte <laforge@netfilter.org>
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
diff --git a/include/linux/types.h b/include/linux/types.h
index dcb13f8..2b678c2 100644
--- a/include/linux/types.h
+++ b/include/linux/types.h
@@ -123,6 +123,9 @@
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