[PATCH 5/5] ARM: Remove hacked-up asm/types.h header

Ard Biesheuvel ardb+git at google.com
Fri Mar 27 04:30:53 PDT 2026


From: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>

ARM has a special version of asm/types.h which contains overrides for
certain #define's related to the C types used to back C99 types such as
uint32_t and uintptr_t.

This is only needed when pulling in system headers such as stdint.h
during the build, and this only happens when using NEON intrinsics, now
that the compiler vectorized version of XOR has been replaced.

So drop this header entirely, and revert to the asm-generic one.

Signed-off-by: Ard Biesheuvel <ardb at kernel.org>
---
 arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/types.h | 41 --------------------
 1 file changed, 41 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/types.h b/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/types.h
deleted file mode 100644
index 1a667bc26510..000000000000
--- a/arch/arm/include/uapi/asm/types.h
+++ /dev/null
@@ -1,41 +0,0 @@
-/* SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0 WITH Linux-syscall-note */
-#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_TYPES_H
-#define _UAPI_ASM_TYPES_H
-
-#include <asm-generic/int-ll64.h>
-
-/*
- * The C99 types uintXX_t that are usually defined in 'stdint.h' are not as
- * unambiguous on ARM as you would expect. For the types below, there is a
- * difference on ARM between GCC built for bare metal ARM, GCC built for glibc
- * and the kernel itself, which results in build errors if you try to build with
- * -ffreestanding and include 'stdint.h' (such as when you include 'arm_neon.h'
- * in order to use NEON intrinsics)
- *
- * As the typedefs for these types in 'stdint.h' are based on builtin defines
- * supplied by GCC, we can tweak these to align with the kernel's idea of those
- * types, so 'linux/types.h' and 'stdint.h' can be safely included from the same
- * source file (provided that -ffreestanding is used).
- *
- *                    int32_t         uint32_t               uintptr_t
- * bare metal GCC     long            unsigned long          unsigned int
- * glibc GCC          int             unsigned int           unsigned int
- * kernel             int             unsigned int           unsigned long
- */
-
-#ifdef __INT32_TYPE__
-#undef __INT32_TYPE__
-#define __INT32_TYPE__		int
-#endif
-
-#ifdef __UINT32_TYPE__
-#undef __UINT32_TYPE__
-#define __UINT32_TYPE__	unsigned int
-#endif
-
-#ifdef __UINTPTR_TYPE__
-#undef __UINTPTR_TYPE__
-#define __UINTPTR_TYPE__	unsigned long
-#endif
-
-#endif /* _UAPI_ASM_TYPES_H */
-- 
2.53.0.1018.g2bb0e51243-goog




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