Re: [5/5] move_pages: 32bit support (i386,x86_64 and ia64)

Andrew Morton
2006-05-24T20:32:53Z

Christoph Lameter <clameter@sgi.com> wrote:
>
> sys_move_pages() support for 32bit (i386 plus ia64 and x86_64 compat layers)
>
> Add support for move_pages() on i386 and also add the
> compat functions necessary to run 32 bit binaries on x86_64 and ia64.
>
> Add compat_sys_move_pages to both the x86_64 and the ia64 32bit binary
> layer. Note that both are not up to date so I added the missing pieces.
> Not sure if this is done the right way.
>
> This probably needs some fixups:
>
> 1. What about sys_vmsplice on x86_64?
>
> 2. There is a whole range of syscalls missing for ia64 that I basically
> interpolated from elsewhere.

I dropped the ia64 bits - looks like that's all on death row anyway.

The omission of sys_vmsplice() from the x86 syscall table does appear to
be, umm, a glaring omission. Jens, what's up?