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From: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
To: Hans-Christian Egtvedt <egtvedt@samfundet.no>
Cc: Matthias Brugger <matthias.bgg@gmail.com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@gmail.com>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
	"Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@linux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Dave Jones <davej@redhat.com>, Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] arch: avr32: add dummy syscalls
Date: Mon, 4 Feb 2013 03:02:21 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20130204030221.GY4503@ZenIV.linux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130204013111.GX4503@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>

On Mon, Feb 04, 2013 at 01:31:11AM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> Unless I'm misreading ocavr32.pdf, that should be (R12, R10:R11, R9, R8) and
> (R12, R10:R11, R9:R8, stack) resp., so fadvise64 doesn't need a wrapper, but
> fadvise64_64 does.  And something like (s32, s32, s64, s64) would turn into
> (R12, R11, R9:R8, stack, stack); AFAICS, we don't have anything that ugly...

Oh, yes, we do - fallocate(2).  int fd, int mode, loff_t offset, loff_t len.
On something like mips or sparc32 it packs nicely; on avr32 it doesn't.
Could you confirm that I haven't misparsed the ABI?

> Automating *that* is going to be interesting...  I've not given up, but it's
> not going to be fun ;-/

  reply	other threads:[~2013-02-04  3:02 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2013-01-27 12:50 [PATCH] arch: avr32: add dummy syscalls Matthias Brugger
2013-01-27 19:57 ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2013-01-27 20:30   ` Al Viro
2013-01-27 20:39     ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2013-02-04  0:10       ` Al Viro
2013-02-04  0:30         ` Al Viro
2013-02-04  1:31           ` Al Viro
2013-02-04  3:02             ` Al Viro [this message]
2013-02-04  4:52               ` Håvard Skinnemoen
2013-02-04  5:05                 ` Al Viro
2013-02-04  5:35                   ` Håvard Skinnemoen
2013-02-04 15:39                     ` Al Viro
2013-02-04 16:34                       ` Håvard Skinnemoen
2013-02-04 22:53                         ` Al Viro
2013-02-05  8:06                         ` Hans-Christian Egtvedt
2013-02-04  3:21             ` H. Peter Anvin
2013-01-28  2:45 ` Håvard Skinnemoen

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