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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: sfr@canb.auug.org.au
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, torvalds@osdl.org,
	ak@suse.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: add compat functions for *at syscalls
Date: Mon, 06 Feb 2006 16:01:40 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060206.160140.59716704.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060207105631.39a1080c.sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

From: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Date: Tue, 7 Feb 2006 10:56:31 +1100

> This adds compat version of all the remaining *at syscalls
> so that the "dfd" arguments can be properly sign extended.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>

I do the sign extension with tiny stubs in arch/sparc64/kernel/sys32.S
so that the arg frobbing does not consume a stack frame, which is what
happens if you do this in C code.

We need to revisit this at some point and make a way for all
compat platforms to do this with a portable table of some kind
that expands a bunch of macros defined by the platform.

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-07  0:01 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 13+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-06 23:56 Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-07  0:01 ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-02-07  0:27   ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-07  1:15     ` Linus Torvalds
2006-02-07  8:44       ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07  8:43     ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07  9:39       ` Andi Kleen
2006-02-07 10:56         ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07  6:40   ` Stephen Rothwell
2006-02-07  9:31     ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-07 13:29       ` Heiko Carstens
2006-02-07 22:57         ` David S. Miller
2006-02-07  9:25   ` Andi Kleen

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