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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Shaohua Li <shli@fb.com>
Cc: linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-api@vger.kernel.org,
	Kernel-team@fb.com, Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	Rik van Riel <riel@redhat.com>, Mel Gorman <mgorman@suse.de>,
	Hugh Dickins <hughd@google.com>,
	Johannes Weiner <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	Andrea Arcangeli <aarcange@redhat.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
	Minchan Kim <minchan@kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH V3][for-next] mm: add a new vector based madvise syscall
Date: Tue, 08 Dec 2015 22:37:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <5198777.4WMnOS8J5R@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <7c6ce0f1fe29fc22faf72134f4e2674da8d3d149.1449532062.git.shli@fb.com>

On Monday 07 December 2015 15:54:07 Shaohua Li wrote:
> index dc1040a..08466c7 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> @@ -333,6 +333,7 @@
>  324    common  membarrier              sys_membarrier
>  325    common  mlock2                  sys_mlock2
>  326    common  copy_file_range         sys_copy_file_range
> +327    common  madvisev                sys_madvisev
>  
>  #
>  # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
> 

An iovec has different sizes on 32-bit and 64-bit user space, so I think
it can't be marked "common" here and you need to implement a
compat_sys_madvisev function instead.

	Arnd

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      parent reply	other threads:[~2015-12-08 21:37 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2015-12-07 23:54 [PATCH V3][for-next] mm: add a new vector based madvise syscall Shaohua Li
     [not found] ` <7c6ce0f1fe29fc22faf72134f4e2674da8d3d149.1449532062.git.shli-b10kYP2dOMg@public.gmane.org>
2015-12-08  6:18   ` Andi Kleen
2015-12-08 17:38     ` Shaohua Li
2015-12-08 21:37 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]

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