From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754766Ab2IRUHo (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:07:44 -0400 Received: from shards.monkeyblade.net ([149.20.54.216]:46589 "EHLO shards.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754583Ab2IRUHN (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:07:13 -0400 Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 16:07:11 -0400 (EDT) Message-Id: <20120918.160711.306288733249793274.davem@davemloft.net> To: catalin.marinas@arm.com Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, arnd@arndb.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org, viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk, cmetcalf@tilera.com, akpm@linux-foundation.org Subject: Re: [PATCH] compat: Generic compat_sys_sched_rr_get_interval implementation From: David Miller In-Reply-To: <1347987727-13739-2-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> References: <1347987727-13739-2-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> X-Mailer: Mew version 6.5 on Emacs 24.1 / Mule 6.0 (HANACHIRUSATO) Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: Text/Plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org From: Catalin Marinas Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:02:07 +0100 > 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 Acked-by: David S. Miller