On 9/18/2012 1:02 PM, Catalin Marinas wrote: > This function is used by sparc, powerpc tile and arm64 for compat > support. The patch adds a generic implementation with a wrapper for > PowerPC to do the u32->int sign extension. > > The reason for a single patch covering powerpc, tile and sparc is to > keep it bisectable, otherwise kernel building may fail with mismatched > function declarations. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > --- > > Please note that the patch has only been compile-tested on sparc, tile > and powerpc (run-time tested on arm64). Acked-by: Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@xxxxxxxxxx> [for tile] -- Chris Metcalf, Tilera Corp. http://www.tilera.com -- 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
