From: Roland Dreier <rdreier@cisco.com>
To: steiner@sgi.com
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, mingo@elte.hu,
tglx@linutronix.de, holt@sgi.com, andrea@qumranet.com
Subject: Re: [patch 03/11] GRU Driver - driver internal header files
Date: Mon, 09 Jun 2008 14:38:18 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <adak5gy70hh.fsf@cisco.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20080609211045.488884093@attica.americas.sgi.com> (steiner@sgi.com's message of "Mon, 09 Jun 2008 16:10:31 -0500")
> +/*
> + * Structure used to pass TLB flush parameters to the driver
> + */
> +struct gru_flush_tlb_req {
> + unsigned long gseg;
> + unsigned long vaddr;
> + size_t len;
> +};
This and other data structures you pass into the kernel via ioctl() are
not 32/64 clean. So a 32-bit process (which can easily run on a 64-bit
x86-64 kernel) will end up sending garbage to the kernel.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2008-06-09 21:38 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 26+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2008-06-09 21:10 [patch 00/11] GRU Driver steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 01/11] GRU Driver - hardware data structures steiner
2008-06-09 22:52 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-10 4:07 ` Andi Kleen
2008-06-11 18:57 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 02/11] GRU Driver - GRU instructions & macros steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 03/11] GRU Driver - driver internal header files steiner
2008-06-09 21:38 ` Roland Dreier [this message]
2008-06-10 14:57 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 04/11] GRU Driver - kernel services " steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 05/11] GRU Driver - driver initialization, file & vma ops steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 06/11] GRU Driver - page faults & exceptions steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 07/11] GRU Driver - kernel services provide by driver steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 08/11] GRU Driver - resource management steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 09/11] GRU Driver - /proc interfaces steiner
2008-06-09 21:32 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-09 22:11 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-10 14:20 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 10/11] GRU Driver - TLB flushing, MMUOPS callouts steiner
2008-06-09 21:10 ` [patch 11/11] GRU Driver - makefile & Kconfig file changes steiner
2008-06-09 21:35 ` Roland Dreier
2008-06-10 14:41 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-12 13:27 ` [patch 00/11] GRU Driver Ingo Molnar
2008-06-12 14:05 ` Jack Steiner
2008-06-12 18:03 ` Andrew Morton
2008-06-12 20:52 ` Jack Steiner
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