From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Arnd Bergmann Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] arm64: Add __NR_* definitions for compat syscalls Date: Wed, 28 Jan 2015 22:35:01 +0100 Message-ID: <12610204.3KbMJUth1j@wuerfel> References: <1404458911-8214-1-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> <1404458911-8214-2-git-send-email-takahiro.akashi@linaro.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: "linux-arm-kernel" Errors-To: linux-arm-kernel-bounces+linux-arm-kernel=m.gmane.org@lists.infradead.org To: linaro-kernel@lists.linaro.org Cc: rgb@redhat.com, Catalin Marinas , Timur Tabi , lkml , eparis@redhat.com, AKASHI Takahiro , linux-audit@redhat.com, Al Viro , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On Wednesday 28 January 2015 15:31:49 Timur Tabi wrote: > On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:28 AM, AKASHI Takahiro > wrote: > > +#define __ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE 0x0f0000 > > +#define __ARM_NR_compat_cacheflush (__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE+2) > > +#define __ARM_NR_compat_set_tls (__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE+5) > > I know this patch is six months old, but I was wondering if anyone > knows of any plans to make these syscalls available to 64-bit apps? > We have a 32-bit app that uses __ARM_NR_compat_cacheflush, and we'd > like to port that app to 64-bit. I'm just not sure how to start doing > that, since there don't appear to be any 64-bit ARM-specific syscalls. > You can add architecture specific syscalls by using the 16 numbers following __NR_arch_specific_syscall. Whether it makes sense to have a cacheflush syscall on arm64, I have no idea. I believe that we should not need a set_tls syscall though. Arnd