From: "David S. Miller" <davem@redhat.com>
To: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Cc: ak@muc.de, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: compat syscall args
Date: Tue, 1 Jun 2004 14:28:04 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20040601142804.729cbd7b.davem@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20040601170418.GA4239@krispykreme>
On Wed, 2 Jun 2004 03:04:18 +1000
Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org> wrote:
> > It would be better to do this consistently over all architectures
> > and do the sign extension (which is much less common than zero
> > extension) always in C code. Then when someone adds a new compat
> > handler the chances are high that it will just work over multiple
> > architectures (ok minus s390) without much more changes.
>
> On ppc64 we now zero extend all arguments. I too would like to see the
> sign extension done in the common compat code, at the moment we have to
> be careful to do it before calling compat code.
Ok, I'm doing some auditing of the sparc64 compat syscall table
and all the args to the syscalls. I'll take this thread further
after I'm done with that.
Sit tight.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2004-06-01 21:29 UTC|newest]
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2004-06-01 13:07 ` compat syscall args Andi Kleen
2004-06-01 17:04 ` Anton Blanchard
2004-06-01 21:28 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2004-05-29 19:23 David S. Miller
2004-05-29 19:31 ` David S. Miller
2004-06-01 13:03 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-01 5:06 ` Stephen Rothwell
2004-06-01 9:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-06-01 9:24 ` David S. Miller
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