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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru>
Cc: Linux-kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: compat ioctl32 for /dev/snapshot?
Date: Mon, 04 May 2009 11:35:43 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87prepgqhc.fsf@basil.nowhere.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <49FEB572.4010909@msgid.tls.msk.ru> (Michael Tokarev's message of "Mon, 04 May 2009 13:29:22 +0400")

Michael Tokarev <mjt@tls.msk.ru> writes:

> Is there any reason why 32-bit uswsusp &Friends does not work
> on 64bits kernel?
>
> For one, 32bits s2disk produces the following when trying to
> suspend:
>
>  ioctl32(s2disk:4134): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(400c330d){t:'3';sz:12} arg(ff853554) on /dev/snapshot
>  ioctl32(s2disk:4134): Unknown cmd fd(4) cmd(4004330a){t:'3';sz:4} arg(00000805) on /dev/snapshot
>
> this is coming from:
>
>     error = ioctl(dev, SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_AREA, &swap);
>     if (error && !offset)
>             error = ioctl(dev, SNAPSHOT_SET_SWAP_FILE, blkdev);
>
> but I guess (just guess!) that other SNAPSHOT_* operations will
> also fail the same way.
>
> Is there a reason why those are not in compat_ioctl?

It's probably just that nobody has written the code yet. In general all
missing compat_ioctls are bugs.

-Andi
-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-05-04  9:35 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 [this message]
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
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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