From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: ynorov@caviumnetworks.com (Yury Norov) Date: Tue, 24 May 2016 03:04:37 +0300 Subject: [PATCH 08/23] arm64: ilp32: add documentation on the ILP32 ABI for ARM64 In-Reply-To: <1464048292-30136-1-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> References: <1464048292-30136-1-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> Message-ID: <1464048292-30136-9-git-send-email-ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org Based on Andrew Pinski's patch-series. Signed-off-by: Yury Norov --- Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt | 25 +++++++++++++++++++++++++ 1 file changed, 25 insertions(+) create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt b/Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt new file mode 100644 index 0000000..8e74d67 --- /dev/null +++ b/Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt @@ -0,0 +1,25 @@ +ILP32 AARCH64 SYSCALL ABI +========================= + +This document describes the ILP32 syscall ABI and where it differs +from the generic compat linux syscall interface. + +Syscalls which normally would pass 64bit values as two arguments; +now pass the 64bit value as one argument. Next syscalls are affected: +fadvise64_64, +fallocate, +ftruncate, +lookup_dcookie, +pread64, +pwrite64, +readahead, +shmat, +sync_file_range, +truncate, +lseek, +mmap + +struct rt_sigframe is redefined and contains struct compat_siginfo, +as compat syscalls expects, and struct ilp32_sigframe, to handle +AARCH64 register set and 32-bit userspace register representation. + -- 2.5.0