From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: zaitcev@redhat.com, schwidefsky@de.ibm.com,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org, jakub@redhat.com
Subject: Re: FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE and 6-argument syscall
Date: Thu, 3 Jun 2004 14:26:30 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040603142630.6004d38f.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040603181345.GA26083@linux-mips.org>
On Thu, 3 Jun 2004 20:13:45 +0200
Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org> wrote:
> > I'm curious if any other architecture was caught out by this.
>
> 6 is the limit on o32 MIPS where we pass 4 arguments in registers and two
> on the stack but it would be easy to extend that. On 64-bit kernels we
> only use upto 8 register arguments but no stack arguments ever so I hope
> we don't exceed that limit ever ...
6 is the limit on Sparc/Sparc64 as well, registers %o0 - %o5 carry
arguments.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-03 21:28 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-06-03 18:02 FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE and 6-argument syscall Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-03 18:13 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-06-03 21:26 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-06-03 23:27 ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-04 0:33 ` Paul Mackerras
2004-06-04 7:44 ` Russell King
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