From: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
To: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
Cc: <linux-arch@vger.kernel.org>, <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: Generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval implementation
Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 13:39:38 -0400 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <5058B1DA.4070001@tilera.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1347987727-13739-2-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com>
On 9/18/2012 1:02 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote:
> This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat
> support. The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for
> PowerPC to do the u32->int sign extension.
>
> The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile and sparc is to
> keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched
> function declarations.
>
> Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
> Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
> Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
> Cc: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
> Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>
> Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
> ---
>
> Please note that the patch has only been compile-tested on sparc, tile
> and powerpc (run-time tested on arm64).
Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com> [for tile]
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Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp.
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-18 17:39 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-18 17:02 [PATCH] compat: Generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval implementation Catalin Marinas
2012-09-18 17:39 ` Chris Metcalf [this message]
2012-09-18 20:07 ` David Miller
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