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From: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
To: hpa@zytor.com
Cc: bcrl@kvack.org, klibc@zytor.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: sys_mmap2 on different architectures
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 17:03:44 -0800 (PST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20060222.170344.84235860.davem@davemloft.net> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <43FD08D8.70300@zytor.com>

From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
Date: Wed, 22 Feb 2006 16:59:04 -0800

> On the other hand, sys32_mmap2 on SPARC64 matches the SPARC32 sys_mmap2 
> in that the shift is hard-coded to 12:
> 
>          .globl          sys32_mmap2
> sys32_mmap2:
>          sethi           %hi(sys_mmap), %g1
>          jmpl            %g1 + %lo(sys_mmap), %g0
>           sllx           %o5, 12, %o5

Another good catch...

> At this point, I'm more than willing to treat SPARC as a special case, 
> but I really want to know what the rules actually _ARE_ as opposed to 
> what they are supposed to be (which they clearly are not.)

I have to admit I'm totally stumped...

Why are you invoking mmap2() instead of mmap64() btw?

  reply	other threads:[~2006-02-23  1:03 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 18+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2006-02-22 21:45 sys_mmap2 on different architectures H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-22 21:54 ` David S. Miller
2006-02-22 22:00   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  0:05   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  0:40     ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  0:41     ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  0:14 ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23  0:22   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  0:43   ` David S. Miller
2006-02-23  0:59     ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  1:03       ` David S. Miller [this message]
2006-02-23  1:06         ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23 17:39     ` Benjamin LaHaise
2006-02-23 17:47       ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23  2:56 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-02-23  3:35   ` H. Peter Anvin
2006-02-23 17:32     ` Ralf Baechle
2006-02-23 17:43       ` H. Peter Anvin

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