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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Airlie <airlied@linux.ie>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types
Date: Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:19:43 +1000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1181913584.26853.78.camel@localhost.localdomain> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200706151440.10273.ak@suse.de>

On Fri, 2007-06-15 at 14:40 +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > That is broken on all non-x86 architectures, 
> 
> It cannot be broken, it just might be somewhat slower

It is because there is already code out there that expects the padding
(32 bits userland code that is).

Ben.



  parent reply	other threads:[~2007-06-15 13:21 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 35+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <200706150159.l5F1xNgM000459@hera.kernel.org>
2007-06-15  8:44 ` drm: fix radeon setparam on 32/64 bit systems David Woodhouse
2007-06-15  8:58   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15  9:28     ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15  9:31       ` [PATCH] Introduce compat_u64 and compat_s64 types Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15  9:55         ` David Miller
2007-06-15 11:55         ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:00           ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:38             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:03           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 12:40             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:47               ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 13:19               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2007-06-15 12:09           ` David Howells
2007-06-15 12:43             ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 12:54               ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 12:54                 ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 13:15                   ` Alan Cox
2007-06-15 13:27                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-15 13:32                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 20:50                   ` Robin Getz
2007-06-15 21:22                     ` Andi Kleen
2007-06-16  8:31                       ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 13:00                 ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:11         ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-15 12:38           ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-15 12:42           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 13:45             ` Matthew Wilcox
2007-06-15 13:52               ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-15 23:54               ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-15 13:16         ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2007-06-16  9:38         ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-16 10:26           ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-16 11:21             ` Arnd Bergmann
2007-06-16 11:34               ` David Woodhouse
2007-06-16 13:56                 ` Matthew Wilcox

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