From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 15:14:18 +1100 > 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). FWIW 32-bit sparc does not have the aligned register requirement for 64-bit arguments. -- 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
