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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
To: akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org
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Subject: Re: + preadv-pwritev-add-preadv-and-pwritev-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Mon, 02 Feb 2009 13:50:09 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <49876A91.4000705@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200902022135.n12LZa1a010673-AB4EexQrvXRQetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>

akpm-de/tnXTf+JLsfHDXvbKv3WD2FQJk+8+b@public.gmane.org wrote:
> 
> This prototype has one problem though: On 32bit archs is the (64bit)
> offset argument unaligned, which the syscall ABI of several archs doesn't
> allow to do.  At least s390 needs a wrapper in glibc to handle this.  As
> we'll need a wrappers in glibc anyway I've decided to push problem to
> glibc entriely and use a syscall prototype which works without
> arch-specific wrappers inside the kernel: The offset argument is
> explicitly splitted into two 32bit values.
> 

That rather sucks.  It'd be cleaner to just shuffle the argument order.

	-hpa
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-02 21:50 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-02-02 21:35 + preadv-pwritev-add-preadv-and-pwritev-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree akpm
     [not found] ` <200902022135.n12LZa1a010673-AB4EexQrvXRQetFLy7KEm3xJsTq8ys+cHZ5vskTnxNA@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-02 21:50   ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
     [not found]     ` <49876A91.4000705-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-03 10:14       ` Gerd Hoffmann
     [not found]         ` <49881904.30705-H+wXaHxf7aLQT0dZR+AlfA@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-03 17:06           ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]             ` <498879B3.8030002-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-03 17:15               ` Russell King
     [not found]                 ` <20090203171559.GA20898-f404yB8NqCZvn6HldHNs0ANdhmdF6hFW@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-03 17:29                   ` H. Peter Anvin
     [not found]                     ` <49887EF4.1090300-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@public.gmane.org>
2009-02-03 17:42                       ` Russell King
2009-02-03 20:19                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-05  0:42                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2009-02-02 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin

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