From: Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>
To: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Cc: Jakub Jelinek <jakub@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@redhat.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE futex op
Date: Thu, 20 May 2004 23:06:22 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <40AD9C5E.1020603@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040520155217.7afad53b.akpm@osdl.org>
Andrew Morton wrote:
> Is it safe to go adding a new argument to an existing syscall in this manner?
Yes. This is a multiplexed syscall and the opcode decides which syscall
parameter is used.
> It'll work OK on x86 because of the stack layout but is the same true of
> all other supported architectures?
We add parameters at the end. This does not influence how previous
values are passed. And especially for syscalls it makes no difference.
--
➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-05-21 6:22 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2004-05-20 9:38 [PATCH] Add FUTEX_CMP_REQUEUE futex op Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-20 22:52 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-21 6:06 ` Ulrich Drepper [this message]
2004-05-21 6:36 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-21 7:15 ` Ulrich Drepper
2004-05-21 7:43 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-22 16:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-24 7:34 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-24 8:12 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-24 8:19 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-28 13:09 ` DOCUMENTATION " bert hubert
2004-05-28 14:02 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-28 15:39 ` bert hubert
2004-05-24 8:27 ` bert hubert
2004-05-24 17:34 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-05-21 7:05 ` Ingo Molnar
2004-05-21 23:05 ` Andrew Morton
2004-05-22 10:10 ` Ingo Oeser
2004-05-23 17:33 ` Jakub Jelinek
2004-05-29 3:13 ` Rusty Russell
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2004-06-07 16:03 Martin Schwidefsky
[not found] <mailman.1086629984.12568.linux-kernel2news@redhat.com>
2004-06-09 20:04 ` Pete Zaitcev
2004-06-09 22:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-11 8:35 ` Martin Schwidefsky
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