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From: Segher Boessenkool <segher@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Matthew Wilcox <matthew@wil.cx>
Cc: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>,
	torvalds@linux-foundation.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	drepper@redhat.com, paulus@samba.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM
Date: Mon, 25 Jun 2007 14:04:19 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2fc3aacccf036072f1b959e7b9ec3629@kernel.crashing.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20070625114742.GG22063@parisc-linux.org>

>> - Some architectures must align 64-bit integers into an aligned
>>   pair of registers. A slot may be wasted for padding.
>> - S390 may not have a 64-bit integer in slots 5/6.
>
> Uhm, doesn't sys_sync_file_range2 break that?
>
> +asmlinkage long compat_sys_sync_file_range2(int fd, unsigned int 
> flags,
> +                                  unsigned offset_hi, unsigned 
> offset_lo,
> +                                  unsigned nbytes_hi, unsigned 
> nbytes_lo)

I don't see any 64-bit integers here.

> Also, you might want to put something in the syscall file about signed
> vs unsigned arguments and how they behave with 32-on-64 systems.

"Both work / unsigned is better / use unsigned whenever
possible" -- but that's true for all C coding.  Wouldn't
hurt to repeat it though :-)


Segher


  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-25 12:04 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-06-25  8:49 Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM David Woodhouse
2007-06-25  9:11 ` Andrew Morton
2007-06-25  9:48   ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-25 10:24     ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-25 10:35   ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-25 11:09     ` Russell King
2007-06-25 11:37       ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-25 11:47         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-25 12:01           ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-25 12:04           ` Segher Boessenkool [this message]
2007-06-25 12:34             ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-25 13:10               ` Segher Boessenkool
2007-06-25 13:33                 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-27 13:34           ` Ralf Baechle
2007-06-27 12:23         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2007-06-25 11:33     ` David Howells
2007-06-25 14:35       ` Kyle McMartin
2007-06-27 13:22 ` Ralf Baechle

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