From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Rafael J. Wysocki" <rjw@sisk.pl>
Cc: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>,
Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>,
"Linux-kernel" <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot?
Date: Tue, 5 May 2009 13:38:45 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200905051338.46436.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200905042355.47109.rjw@sisk.pl>
On Monday 04 May 2009, Rafael J. Wysocki wrote:
> In fact I don't think the 32-bit user space will work with 64-bit kernels as is
> in this particular case, because of the different pointer size.
>
> Having a quick look at the code (I don't remember the details right now)
> I think most probably it could be modified to handle this case too, but I'm not
> really sure.
I don't see anything in the snapshot code that passes pointers to the
kernel, so why should the pointer size matter?
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2009-05-05 11:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 19+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2009-05-04 9:29 compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot? Michael Tokarev
2009-05-04 9:35 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-04 10:55 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-04 11:12 ` Andi Kleen
2009-05-04 21:55 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-05 11:38 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2009-05-05 11:43 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-05 23:13 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-05-04 11:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-04 22:26 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-05-05 10:58 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-05-04 21:58 ` Rafael J. Wysocki
2009-07-10 16:21 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-12 0:19 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-07-12 15:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-07-13 6:51 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-07-13 20:21 ` Pavel Machek
2009-07-14 6:57 ` Michael Tokarev
2009-07-14 9:55 ` Pavel Machek
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