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From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Gerd Hoffmann <kraxel@redhat.com>,
	akpm@linux-foundation.org, mm-commits@vger.kernel.org,
	arnd@arndb.de, linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.k
Subject: Re: + preadv-pwritev-add-preadv-and-pwritev-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:42:48 -0800	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <498A3608.3010008@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20090203174257.GC20898@flint.arm.linux.org.uk>

Russell King wrote:
> 
> This is an overly simplified view of things.  There exist syscalls where
> it's not just a matter of padding, but instead where the chosen argument
> order interacts with the ABI padding requirements to produce something
> which the syscall interface can't handle.  There are two solutions to
> that: reorder the syscall arguments or split them up into 32-bit high/low
> quantities.
> 

I just went back and looked specifically at this, and I wonder if you 
could be more concrete.  In particular, this seems to imply a rule 
somewhere which could probably be improved reasonably easily.

	-hpa

  parent reply	other threads:[~2009-02-05  0:42 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
     [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 [this message]
2009-02-02 21:51 ` H. Peter Anvin

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