[PATCH] Wire up sys_sync_file_range() on powerpc
    Paul Mackerras 
    paulus at samba.org
       
    Mon Jun 18 15:37:06 EST 2007
    
    
  
David Woodhouse writes:
> Pants.
Ah.  Is that a naughty word in the UK?  If so I'll have to remember
that when I go to kernel summit. :)
> It doesn't work because the 'flags' argument ends up in r9, and
> we can only use r3-r8 for syscall arguments. We'll need to do it the
> same way as ARM does, with the flags as the second argument.
Yes.  We'll need a wrapper for both 32-bit and for 32-on-64.
> Or is it? Can we ditch sys_sync_file_range now and implement a new
> sys_sync_file_range2 with the two 32-bit arguments first?
Would be nice...
Paul.
    
    
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