Re: [ACPI] Re: [PATCH/RFC] exposing ACPI objects in sysfs

[Alex Williamson <alex.williamson@hp.com>]

On Tue, 2004-09-21 at 21:06 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2004 at 07:26:25PM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > +struct special_cmd {
> > > +        u32                     magic;
> > > +        unsigned int            cmd;
> > > +        char                    *args;
> > > +};
> > 
> > Talk to Andi Kleen; passing such structures using read/write is evil,
> > because (unlike ioctl) there's no place to put 32/64bit
> > translation. Imagine i386 application running on x86-64 system.
> 
> Yes, Pavel is right. Please don't pass pointers by read/write
> because it cannot be 32bit emulated.

   All pointers are actually interpreted as offsets into the buffer for
this interface.  They are not actually pointers.  I believe the 32bit
emulation problem is limited to an ILP32 application generating data
structures appropriate for an LP64 kernel.  While difficult, it can be
done.

	Alex

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Alex Williamson                             HP Linux & Open Source Lab