From: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
To: Kyle McMartin <kyle@parisc-linux.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo
Date: Sat, 28 Oct 2006 16:47:38 -0600 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20061028224738.GT5591@parisc-linux.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20061028223730.GC3243@athena.road.mcmartin.ca>
On Sat, Oct 28, 2006 at 06:37:30PM -0400, Kyle McMartin wrote:
> Every 32-on-64 arch (except parisc) was implementing effectively the
> same sys32_rt_sigqueueinfo. Add a generic implementation taken from
> x86_64 and add it to kernel/compat.c, which required the addition of
> copy_siginfo_from_user32 on mips and powerpc. sparc64 had a sufficient
> implementation for this purpose, so crib it for both those platforms.
Why can't we have a compat_copy_siginfo_from_user() (and
compat_copy_siginfo_to_user() for that matter) defined in
kernel/compat.c for all architectures? The user32 convention really
grates for some reason ;-)
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-10-28 22:47 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2006-10-28 22:37 Generic compat_sys_rt_sigqueueinfo Kyle McMartin
2006-10-28 22:47 ` Matthew Wilcox [this message]
2006-10-28 22:53 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-10-28 23:09 ` Matthew Wilcox
2006-10-28 23:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-28 23:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-10-30 15:46 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-10-30 15:59 ` Kyle McMartin
2006-10-31 7:02 ` Andrew Morton
2006-11-01 7:23 ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-11-01 14:24 ` Kyle McMartin
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