From: David <xendev@bsdlazarus.com>
To: Hollis Blanchard <hollisb@us.ibm.com>, xen-devel@lists.xensource.com
Subject: Re: 32/64-bit hypercall interface
Date: Fri, 30 Sep 2005 12:44:27 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <433D6B6B.3030906@bsdlazarus.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4f11a9f98b8a256a1a9011af12e9788e@us.ibm.com>
Hi,
>
> I think the Linux kernel folks learned the "unsigned long" lesson too
> late, and now there is quite a lot of fixup code to convert 32-bit
> userspace structs to 64-bit kernel structs (have a look at
> linux/fs/compat_ioctl.c and compat.c). It seems a shame to repeat the
> same mistakes in Xen...
>
Quick question.... What is this "'unsigned long' lesson" you are
refering to?
-- David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-09-30 16:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 48+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-09-29 13:56 32/64-bit hypercall interface Ian Pratt
2005-09-29 18:17 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-29 20:12 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-29 22:26 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-29 22:43 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 0:54 ` Andrei Petrov
2005-09-30 8:03 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 15:38 ` Jimi Xenidis
2005-09-30 20:05 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-30 20:28 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 20:39 ` Ronald G Minnich
2005-09-30 15:39 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 15:45 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 16:34 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 16:42 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 17:03 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-01 1:33 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-10-03 19:34 ` Kip Macy
2005-09-30 16:44 ` David [this message]
2005-09-30 16:44 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-30 16:57 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-30 16:55 ` Andrei Petrov
2005-10-03 18:18 ` Hollis Blanchard
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-10-04 21:51 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-04 22:47 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-04 16:03 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-04 16:45 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-03 22:03 Ian Pratt
2005-10-04 18:05 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-05 10:22 ` Keir Fraser
2005-10-03 21:24 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-04 12:11 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-04 16:15 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-03 19:56 Ian Pratt
2005-10-03 20:04 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-10-03 21:11 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-03 22:00 ` Keir Fraser
2005-10-04 16:27 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-04 12:08 ` Andi Kleen
2005-10-03 19:11 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-03 19:28 ` Hollis Blanchard
2005-10-02 21:21 Ian Pratt
2005-10-01 18:25 Nakajima, Jun
2005-10-03 16:11 ` Jeremy Katz
2005-09-28 21:36 Hollis Blanchard
2005-09-29 9:00 ` Keir Fraser
2005-09-29 12:41 ` Jimi Xenidis
2005-09-29 13:13 ` Keir Fraser
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