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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, rmk@arm.linux.org.uk,
	torvalds@osdl.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Wire up sys_sync_file_range() on powerpc
Date: Mon, 18 Jun 2007 15:37:06 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <18038.6658.854660.4233@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1182018044.2808.75.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

David Woodhouse writes:

> Pants.

Ah.  Is that a naughty word in the UK?  If so I'll have to remember
that when I go to kernel summit. :)

> It doesn't work because the 'flags' argument ends up in r9, and
> we can only use r3-r8 for syscall arguments. We'll need to do it the
> same way as ARM does, with the flags as the second argument.

Yes.  We'll need a wrapper for both 32-bit and for 32-on-64.

> Or is it? Can we ditch sys_sync_file_range now and implement a new
> sys_sync_file_range2 with the two 32-bit arguments first?

Would be nice...

Paul.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-06-18  5:42 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 4+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1181992681.25228.683.camel@pmac.infradead.org>
2007-06-16 18:20 ` [PATCH] Wire up sys_sync_file_range() on powerpc David Woodhouse
2007-06-18  5:37   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2007-06-18  9:25     ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-18  9:41       ` Russell King

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