From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Jamie Lokier <jamie@shareable.org>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Mark Lord <kernel@teksavvy.com>,
Ulrich Drepper <drepper@redhat.com>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
Steven Munroe <munroesj@linux.vnet.ibm.com>
Subject: Re: 64-syscall args on 32-bit vs syscall()
Date: Tue, 16 Mar 2010 07:33:24 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1268685204.2335.36.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100315150401.GF15133@shareable.org>
On Mon, 2010-03-15 at 15:04 +0000, Jamie Lokier wrote:
> There are several problems with syscall(), not just this - because a
> number of system calls in section 2 of the manual don't map directly
> to kernel syscalls with the same function prototype.
>
> Even fork() has become something complicated in Glibc that doesn't use
> the fork syscall :-(
>
> So anything using syscall() has to be careful on Linux already.
> Changing the 64-bit alignment won't fix the other differences.
It won't fix -all- the problems with syscall(), but it will fix a wagon
of them without breaking existing code that already does the arch
specific breakup on the call site...
Cheers,
Ben.
prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 20:34 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 4:48 64-syscall args on 32-bit vs syscall() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 4:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 5:06 ` David Miller
2010-03-15 5:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 5:54 ` David Miller
2010-03-15 20:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 13:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-03-15 15:13 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-15 16:00 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-15 19:00 ` David Miller
2010-03-15 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-15 20:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-16 21:56 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-17 0:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 0:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 5:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-17 8:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 9:14 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-17 10:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 9:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-17 10:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-17 20:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 20:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-17 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-18 16:08 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-18 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-03-18 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-03-18 17:03 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-18 21:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-19 1:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-15 20:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 15:03 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-15 20:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 15:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-15 20:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
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