From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1946139AbXBIVxm (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:53:42 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1946143AbXBIVxl (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:53:41 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:36908 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1946139AbXBIVxl (ORCPT ); Fri, 9 Feb 2007 16:53:41 -0500 Subject: Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21 From: David Woodhouse To: Russell King Cc: Andrew Morton , Alexey Dobriyan , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, drepper@redhat.com In-Reply-To: <20070209214944.GA16158@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <20070208150710.1324f6b4.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <1171042535.29713.96.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <20070209134516.2367a7aa.akpm@linux-foundation.org> <20070209214944.GA16158@flint.arm.linux.org.uk> Content-Type: text/plain Date: Fri, 09 Feb 2007 21:53:19 +0000 Message-Id: <1171057999.29713.129.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 X-Mailer: Evolution 2.8.2.1 (2.8.2.1-3.fc6.dwmw2.1) Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Fri, 2007-02-09 at 21:49 +0000, Russell King wrote: > urgh, new system calls... wonder if they fit in the ARM ABI... Looks > fine. Can you elucidate on _what_ you just checked for? There was something about alignment of 64-bit arguments to syscalls which affects MIPS and/or ARM which I can't quite remember-- something about putting it them arguments in either an even-numbered or odd-numbered position to make it work nicely. Is that actually written anywhere, and does anyone bother to check? -- dwmw2