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From: Daniel Walker <dwalker@mvista.com>
Date: Fri, 27 Apr 2007 15:48:51 +0000
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] ia64: convert to use clocksource code
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To: Peter Keilty <peter.keilty@hp.com>
Cc: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org, John Stultz <johnstul@us.ibm.com>, Eric Whitney <eric.whitney@hp.com>, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org

On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 11:42 -0400, Peter Keilty wrote:

> >
> >There is a read(), and a vread() did you modify the slow syscall path to
> >use the vread()?
> >  
> >
> I miss type, read().

John mentioned that he thought fsys_mmio_ptr could be held in the vread
pointer. vread() is used in x86 for vsyscalls. It looks like you've used
the update_vsyscall() which is also used for vsyscalls. So vread could
also be used .. Have you considered that at all?

Daniel