On Wednesday 19 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > This function is used by sparc, powerpc and arm64 for compat support. > The patch adds a generic implementation which calls do_sendfile() > directly and avoids set_fs(). > > The sparc architecture has wrappers for the sign extensions while > powerpc relies on the compiler to do the this. The patch adds wrappers > for powerpc to handle the u32->int type conversion. > > compat_sys_sendfile64() can be replaced by a sys_sendfile() call since > compat_loff_t has the same size as off_t on a 64-bit system. > > On powerpc, the patch also changes the 64-bit sendfile call from > sys_sendile64 to sys_sendfile. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx> > Acked-by: David S. Miller <davem@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> > Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@xxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Alexander Viro <viro@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> > Cc: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> -- 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
