From: Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@chello.nl>
To: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
Corey Ashford <cjashfor@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/5] perf_counter: rework ioctl()s
Date: Tue, 12 May 2009 08:27:30 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1242109650.11251.313.camel@twins> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <18953.5533.398597.677737@drongo.ozlabs.ibm.com>
On Tue, 2009-05-12 at 16:22 +1000, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Peter Zijlstra writes:
>
> > Hmm, are you saying that the 3rd argument to unlocked_ioctl is actually
> > (void __user *) instead of unsigned long?
>
> He's saying (correctly) that using _IOR or _IOW implies that the ioctl
> is going to read or write the memory location pointed to by the 3rd
> argument to unlocked_ioctl. If the 3rd argument is just a number, not
> an address, I believe you should use _IO.
Oh, somewhat confusing all this. Would be good to spell out these things
somewhere. Documentation/ioctl/ seems less than helpful.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-12 6:27 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-08 16:52 [PATCH 0/5] pending patches Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 16:52 ` [PATCH 1/5] hrtimer: per-cpu cached values of ktime Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 23:10 ` Andrew Morton
2009-05-09 19:45 ` Linus Torvalds
2009-05-09 19:59 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 16:52 ` [PATCH 2/5] perf_counter: optimize perf_counter_task_tick() Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 18:39 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 16:52 ` [PATCH 3/5] perf_counter: rework ioctl()s Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 18:39 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] " tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-11 1:29 ` [PATCH 3/5] " Paul Mackerras
2009-05-11 15:12 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 6:24 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-11 18:12 ` Corey Ashford
2009-05-11 20:52 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-11 22:37 ` Corey Ashford
2009-05-12 6:16 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-12 16:15 ` Corey Ashford
2009-05-12 22:18 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-12 22:51 ` Corey Ashford
2009-05-11 23:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 6:11 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 6:22 ` Paul Mackerras
2009-05-12 6:27 ` Peter Zijlstra [this message]
2009-05-12 7:10 ` Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 7:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-12 10:59 ` [PATCH] perf_counter: fix ioctl()s Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-12 11:21 ` [PATCH 3/5] perf_counter: rework ioctl()s Paul Mackerras
2009-05-08 16:52 ` [PATCH 4/5] perf_counter: PERF_RECORD_CONFIG Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 18:39 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: add PERF_RECORD_CONFIG tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 16:52 ` [PATCH 5/5] perf_counter: PERF_RECORD_CPU Peter Zijlstra
2009-05-08 18:40 ` [tip:perfcounters/core] perf_counter: add PERF_RECORD_CPU tip-bot for Peter Zijlstra
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