Re: [PATCH] work around duff ABIs

[Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>]

On Sun Oct 20, 2002 at 05:31:47AM +0100, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> 
> *sigh*.  i hate this kind of bullshit.  please, don't anyone ever try
> to pass 64-bit args through the syscall interface again.

I agree it can be a pain.

[-----------snip-------------]
> -asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char *buf,
> -			     size_t count, loff_t pos)
> +#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN
> +asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char *buf, size_t count,
> +				unsigned int high, unsigned int low)
> +#else
> +asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pread64(unsigned int fd, char *buf, size_t count,
> +				unsigned int low, unsigned int high)
> +#endif

Nonono.  Please see __LONG_LONG_PAIR in /usr/include/endian.h.
Your user space code should be doing something like this:

    static inline _syscall5(ssize_t, __syscall_pread, int, fd, void *, buf,
	    size_t, count, off_t, offset_hi, off_t, offset_lo);

    ssize_t __libc_pread(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off_t offset)
    {
	return(__syscall_pread(fd,buf,count,__LONG_LONG_PAIR((off_t)0,offset)));
    }

    ssize_t __libc_pread64(int fd, void *buf, size_t count, off64_t offset)
    {
	return(__syscall_pread(fd, buf, count,
		    __LONG_LONG_PAIR((off_t)(offset>>32),
		    (off_t)(offset&0xffffffff))));
    }

Your patch is going to break GNU libc, uClibc, and anyone else in
userspace that is doing pread and pread64 correctly....

 -Erik

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