[PATCH] ppc64: fix semtimedop compat syscall

Stephen Rothwell sfr at canb.auug.org.au
Tue Mar 22 14:22:11 EST 2005


On Mon, 21 Mar 2005 13:50:31 -0800 "David S. Miller" <davem at redhat.com> wrote:
>
> On Tue, 22 Mar 2005 08:22:12 +1100
> Anton Blanchard <anton at samba.org> wrote:
> 
> > I was also wondering if we could make the compat layer sign extension
> > code common, the ppc64 ones are written in c and most probably
> > incomplete at the moment.
> 
> I do them in assembler on sparc64 to save a stack frame.
> See arch/sparc64/kernel/sys32.S
> 
> That file is interesting because I am %99.999 certain that
> it is an exhaustive list of the system calls that require
> sign extension.

I will take the hint and have a look at compat_sys_ipc (unless someone
beats me to it).

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr at canb.auug.org.au
http://www.canb.auug.org.au/~sfr/
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