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From: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
To: dwmw2@infradead.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, sfr@canb.auug.org.au,
	ralf@linux-mips.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org, paulus@samba.org,
	rmk@arm.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH] [POWERPC] Wire up sys_sync_file_range
Date: Thu, 08 Mar 2007 23:13:41 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20070308.231341.41635421.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1173423341.3461.548.camel@pmac.infradead.org>

From: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Date: Fri, 09 Mar 2007 06:55:41 +0000

> On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 15:22 +1100, Stephen Rothwell wrote:
> > This requires an architecture specific compat routine as u64s are passed
> > in odd/even (high/low) register pairs on ppc32.
> > 
> > Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
> 
> Doesn't that apply to ARM and to 32-bit MIPS too? And perhaps others?

Unfortunately in the MIPS case you'll have to do some ifdef'ing because
the order of the "high" and "low" sub-part arguments is dependant upon
endianness and MIPS can be both big and little endian.

  reply	other threads:[~2007-03-09  7:13 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2007-03-09  4:22 [PATCH] [POWERPC] Wire up sys_sync_file_range Stephen Rothwell
2007-03-09  6:55 ` David Woodhouse
2007-03-09  7:13   ` David Miller [this message]
2007-03-09 11:59     ` Ralf Baechle
2007-03-15 10:23       ` Stephen Rothwell
2007-03-17 15:10 ` Stephen Rothwell

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