From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Paul Jackson <pj@sgi.com>,
ak@muc.de, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
Linux Arch list <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Fix argument checking in sched_setaffinity
Date: Wed, 8 Sep 2004 10:26:03 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040908002603.GB25278@krispykreme> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040907144936.GD20981@wotan.suse.de>
Hi,
> For mbind() breaking existing ppc64 users is unlikely I agree.
Yes.
> For setaffinity I am not so sure. The system call is around
> for a long time and has been used in standard utilities
> in distributions also for quite some time.
We have deployed applications using setaffinity, we need a very good
reason to change this.
> So in short I think changing mbind to u32 would be fine,
> but I wouldn't do it for sched_setaffinity()
Agreed.
Anton
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-09-08 0:28 UTC|newest]
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2004-09-07 14:40 ` [PATCH] Fix argument checking in sched_setaffinity Linus Torvalds
2004-09-07 14:48 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-09-07 14:49 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-07 21:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2004-09-07 22:55 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-08 6:58 ` Andi Kleen
2004-09-08 7:26 ` Paul Jackson
2004-09-08 0:26 ` Anton Blanchard [this message]
2004-09-07 14:50 ` Matthew Wilcox
2004-09-08 0:24 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-08 0:33 ` [PATCH] [ppc64] compat_get_bitmap/compat_put_bitmap Anton Blanchard
2004-09-08 0:40 ` [PATCH] [ppc64] Fix compat cpu affinity on big endian 64bit Anton Blanchard
2004-09-08 0:43 ` [PATCH] [ppc64] Fix compat NUMA API " Anton Blanchard
2004-09-08 5:22 ` [PATCH] [ppc64] Fix compat cpu affinity " Andrew Morton
2004-09-08 5:34 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-09-08 5:43 ` Andrew Morton
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