Matthew Wilcox writes: > On Fri, Dec 12, 2008 at 03:00:40PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > The patch sports the actual system call implementation and the windup in > > the x86 system call tables. Other archs are TBD. > > > +asmlinkage ssize_t sys_preadv(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec __user *vec, > > + unsigned long vlen, loff_t pos) > > +asmlinkage ssize_t sys_pwritev(unsigned long fd, const struct iovec __user *vec, > > + unsigned long vlen, loff_t pos) > > Are these prototypes required? MIPS and PARISC will need wrappers to > fix them if they are. These two architectures have an ABI which > requires 64-bit arguments to be passed in aligned pairs of registers, As does 32-bit PowerPC, so I also would prefer the alternate argument order for the syscall (pos as the 3rd argument). Paul. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
