From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: rml@novell.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, paulus@samba.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
ttb@tentacle.dhs.org
Subject: Re: [patch] inotify: ppc64 syscalls.
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:33:17 -0700 (PDT) [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20050727.133317.115640883.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1122496262.21253.190.camel@betsy>
From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com>
Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:31:02 -0400
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:27 -0700, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > You'll notice that sys_ppc32.c has a ton of shims which purely
> > exist to sign extend "int" system call arguments. Sparc64 does
> > something similarly, but in assembler so that we don't eat the
> > overhead of a full stack frame just to sign extend arguments.
>
> Yah, but it looked like they did the sign extend thing for every int but
> file descriptors, and fd's are the only int's we have.
Ok, works for me :-)
prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-07-27 20:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-07-27 15:45 [patch] inotify: ppc32 syscalls Robert Love
2005-07-27 16:55 ` Andrew Morton
2005-07-27 17:31 ` [patch] inotify: ppc64 syscalls Robert Love
2005-07-27 20:27 ` David S. Miller
2005-07-27 20:31 ` Robert Love
2005-07-27 20:33 ` David S. Miller [this message]
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