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From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
To: Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com>
Cc: "linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>,
	"linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org"
	<linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] FS: Export poll_select_copy_remaining and rename poll_select_copy_remaining in compat.c so it does not pick the wrong copy.
Date: Fri, 13 Sep 2013 10:53:47 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130913095347.GA10385@arm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CA+=Sn1=4KeoJ=beDVE0tb+2nS_i8pDBq9o-GJUwSZmhhLOhoPw@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 10:00:14PM +0100, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Catalin Marinas
> <catalin.marinas@arm.com> wrote:
> > On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:32:57PM +0100, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> >>   The ILP32 ABI in ARM64 uses a slightly different pselect from either
> >>   the compat or even the native LP64 ABI.  We would want to reuse some
> >>   of the code path that are used as the size of the timespec is the
> >>   same, so this patch exports poll_select_copy_remaining from
> >>   fs/select.c and renames the copy in fs/compat.c to make sure that it
> >>   is not being used.
> >>
> >> Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
> >
> > I think this patch has to wait until we review the ILP32 ABI for arm64.
> > When I looked at this some time ago I thought we can just use the native
> > arm64 pselect6 and ppoll. Once we agree that's not possible we can push
> > this patch. On its own it doesn't have much value.
> 
> Since fd_set is defined by XPG4.2  to be a struct of an array of
> "long"'s, we cannot change the definition in user space.
> 
> I tried using the native ppoll/pselect for the ABI first.  It worked
> for little-endian just fine but failed hard when big-endian.
> If we only care about little-endian arm64 at this point, I can remove
> this part of the patch and keep it for when we (Cavium) submits the
> big-endian patches.

I see the issue now. I think for the initial set of patches we can
assume little endian. We need a lot more testing, at least for AArch32
mode (we can kick off some tests here once these patches get closer to
merging).

-- 
Catalin

  reply	other threads:[~2013-09-13  9:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1378762380-13152-1-git-send-email-apinski@cavium.com>
2013-09-09 21:32 ` [PATCH 3/5] FS: Export poll_select_copy_remaining and rename poll_select_copy_remaining in compat.c so it does not pick the wrong copy Andrew Pinski
2013-09-11 11:09   ` Catalin Marinas
2013-09-11 21:00     ` Andrew Pinski
2013-09-13  9:53       ` Catalin Marinas [this message]
2013-09-09 21:32 ` Andrew Pinski
2013-09-09 21:32 ` Andrew Pinski

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