From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa-YMNOUZJC4hwAvxtiuMwx3w@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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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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