From: Kyle McMartin <kyle@infradead.org>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 0/3] preadv & pwritev syscalls.
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2008 11:25:41 -0500 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20081216162541.GB410@bombadil.infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20081216160502.GA15331@linux-mips.org>
On Tue, Dec 16, 2008 at 04:05:02PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> If merge_64() was a standard macro in <asm/compat.h> on all architectures,
> compat_sys_pwrite() could invoke it directly and the need for the compat
> wrapper around the compat wrapper would go away.
>
+1 for this.
AFAIK, there's issues on s390 and sparc (at least) with sign extension,
that they need to wrap anyway, we should really sort that out in the
generic compat wrappers as well.
cheers, Kyle
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-12-16 16:25 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-12-15 11:36 [PATCH v3 0/3] preadv & pwritev syscalls Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-15 11:36 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] Add missing accounting calls to compat_sys_{readv,writev} Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-15 11:36 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] Add preadv and pwritev system calls Gerd Hoffmann
[not found] ` <1229340977-24345-1-git-send-email-kraxel-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-15 11:36 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] MIPS: Add preadv(2) and pwritev(2) syscalls Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-15 16:03 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] preadv & pwritev syscalls Ralf Baechle
2008-12-15 20:02 ` David Miller
2008-12-15 20:57 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-16 16:05 ` Ralf Baechle
2008-12-16 16:25 ` Kyle McMartin [this message]
[not found] ` <20081216160502.GA15331-6z/3iImG2C8G8FEW9MqTrA@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-16 16:48 ` Gerd Hoffmann
2008-12-16 17:02 ` Kyle McMartin
2008-12-16 21:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
[not found] ` <20081216170209.GC410-PfSpb0PWhxZc2C7mugBRk2EX/6BAtgUQ@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-16 21:34 ` Gerd Hoffmann
[not found] ` <49481EF9.3090304-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2008-12-16 22:39 ` Heiko Carstens
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