From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: Chuck Ebbert <76306.1226@compuserve.com>
Cc: Jeff Dike <jdike@addtoit.com>,
"Paolo 'Blaisorblade' Giarrusso" <blaisorblade@yahoo.it>,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>, Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [patch 0/9] Shared ia32 syscall table
Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2006 10:02:42 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200601241002.43408.ak@suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200601240355_MC3-1-B687-9FD3@compuserve.com>
On Tuesday 24 January 2006 09:53, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> In-Reply-To: <200601240141.08152.ak@suse.de>
>
> On Tue, 24 Jan 2006 at 01:41:07 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
>
> > On Tuesday 24 January 2006 01:36, Chuck Ebbert wrote:
> > > This patch series updates i386 and x86_64 so they share
> > > the same ia32 syscall table. UML already uses the i386
> > > table and is updated to use the new shared table as well.
> >
> > That's wrong for x86-64. The IA32 syscall table needs
> > to point to compat_* version of syscalls, while the native
> > IA32 table uses sys_* directly.
>
> How could I have possibly gotten a successful boot of an i386
> distro on top of the patched x86_64 kernel if this were wrong?
>
> Did you even look at the patches?
No, because they arrived more than an hour after the initial
description and i just replied to that.
Looking at the patch I must say I prefer the old straight
table over your #define mess.
-Andi
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-01-24 9:07 UTC|newest]
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2006-01-24 8:53 [patch 0/9] Shared ia32 syscall table Chuck Ebbert
2006-01-24 9:02 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
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2006-01-24 0:36 Chuck Ebbert
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