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From: "Arnd Bergmann" <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Nhat Pham" <nphamcs@gmail.com>,
	"Andrew Morton" <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Cc: "Johannes Weiner" <hannes@cmpxchg.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	bfoster@redhat.com, "Matthew Wilcox" <willy@infradead.org>,
	linux-api@vger.kernel.org, kernel-team@meta.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v9 2/3] cachestat: implement cachestat syscall
Date: Sun, 05 Feb 2023 10:55:38 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <834254e6-a9c2-440c-9c67-fc5fa5ca43bc@app.fastmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20230203190413.2559707-3-nphamcs@gmail.com>

On Fri, Feb 3, 2023, at 20:04, Nhat Pham wrote:

> +SYSCALL_DEFINE5(cachestat, unsigned int, fd, loff_t, off, size_t, len,
> +		struct cachestat __user *, cstat, unsigned int, flags)
> +{
> +	return ksys_cachestat(fd, off, len, cstat, flags);
> +}
> +
> +#ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> +COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE6(cachestat, unsigned int, fd, 
> compat_arg_u64_dual(off),
> +		size_t, len, struct cachestat __user *, cstat, unsigned int, flags)
> +{
> +	return ksys_cachestat(fd, compat_arg_u64_glue(off), len, cstat, 
> flags);
> +}

This still looks wrong to me, as this compat definition does not match
the native variant on architectures that require 64-bit arguments to
be passed in aligned register pairs, such as arm, mips or ppc, but
not x86, s390 or riscv.

     Arnd

  parent reply	other threads:[~2023-02-05  9:56 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 10+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2023-02-03 19:04 [PATCH v9 0/3] cachestat: a new syscall for page cache state of files Nhat Pham
2023-02-03 19:04 ` [PATCH v9 1/3] workingset: refactor LRU refault to expose refault recency check Nhat Pham
2023-02-03 19:04 ` [PATCH v9 2/3] cachestat: implement cachestat syscall Nhat Pham
2023-02-03 22:10   ` kernel test robot
2023-02-03 22:10   ` kernel test robot
2023-02-03 22:10   ` kernel test robot
2023-02-05  9:55   ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2023-02-12  7:17     ` Nhat Pham
     [not found]     ` <CAKEwX=MneVSm49FYxNAP+-uQijOZnNfWjuzF7FPub_rcDFY__A@mail.gmail.com>
2023-02-13  7:00       ` Arnd Bergmann
2023-02-03 19:04 ` [PATCH v9 3/3] selftests: Add selftests for cachestat Nhat Pham

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