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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Cc: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@codeaurora.org>,
	Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>, Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>,
	Tobias Klauser <tklauser@distanz.ch>
Subject: Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers
Date: Mon, 05 Sep 2011 09:48 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <2722845.TegCUU4bu0@wuerfel> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOrU0wcrRxPoTRcmVRd+2hDwjCta_73Ji-MMiRRXR-3ndw@mail.gmail.com>

On Sunday 04 September 2011 15:13:18 H.J. Lu wrote:
> On Sun, Sep 4, 2011 at 2:41 PM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Sunday 04 September 2011 14:25:53 H.J. Lu wrote:
> >> >> >> #define __NR_x32_recvfrom
> >> >> >> #define __NR_x32_sendmsg
> >> >> >> #define __NR_x32_recvmsg
> >> >> >> #define __NR_x32_recvmmsg
> >> >> >> #define __NR_x32_sendmmsg
> >> >> >
> >> >> > These today use the MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag to distinguish native and compat
> >> >> > calls. Do you plan to have another flag here to handle cmsg time values?
> >> >>
> >> >> I am using x86-32 calls for them.
> >> >
> >> > But isn't that broken? These all pass u64 or time_t values at some point.
> >> >
> >>
> >> time_t isn't a problem since time_t/timeval/timespec are identical for
> >> x32 and x86-64.  As for u64, I added NATIVE_LONG_TYPE, which is
> >> defined as long long for x32,  and use it instead of long in types for
> >> 64bit system calls.
> >
> > Sorry, I misread you as saying you use the compat syscalls for these.
> > If you use the native 64 bit syscalls, you have the opposite problem:
> > Some network protocols (e.g. netlink or rxrpc) use other data structures
> > that require conversion, e.g. 'long' members that x32 will get wrong.
> 
> For those, I use x86-32 calls.

So to ask again, what do you plan to do about SCM_TIMESTAMP*?

	Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2011-09-05  7:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 94+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2011-08-26 23:00 RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-26 23:13 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-26 23:39   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-27  0:36     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27  0:43       ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27  0:53         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-27  1:18           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27  1:35             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-27  1:45               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-27  1:12         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-27  1:42           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-29 19:01             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-08-29 19:03               ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-30  1:17               ` Ted Ts'o
2011-08-30  1:48               ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-30  2:16                 ` Kyle Moffett
2011-08-30  4:45                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-30  7:06                     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-08-30 12:18                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-30  7:09                   ` Andi Kleen
2011-08-30  9:56                     ` Alan Cox
2011-08-30  7:00                 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-09-20 18:37                   ` Jan Engelhardt
2011-09-06 20:40         ` Florian Weimer
2011-08-27  0:57       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-27  4:40         ` Christoph Hellwig
2011-08-29 15:04           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-29 18:31             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-30 12:09               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-30 16:35                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 16:14                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-31 16:25                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 16:39                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-31 16:48                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-31 19:18                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-31 19:44                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 19:54                               ` Alan Cox
2011-08-31 20:02                                 ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 20:55                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-08-31 20:58                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 19:49                             ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2011-08-31 16:46                     ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-31 17:05                       ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03  2:56                         ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03  3:04                           ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-03  4:02                             ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03  4:29                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-03  4:44                                 ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03  5:16                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-03 14:11                                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03  5:29                                   ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-03  8:41                                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-03 14:04                                       ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-03 16:40                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-03 17:16                                           ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-03 17:22                                             ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03 17:28                                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-03 17:27                                             ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-04 13:51                                               ` Valdis.Kletnieks
2011-09-04 15:17                                               ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-04 17:08                                                 ` Linus Torvalds
2011-09-04 18:40                                                 ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-04 19:06                                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-04 19:31                                                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-04 21:13                                                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-04 21:25                                                         ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-04 21:41                                                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-04 22:13                                                             ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-05  7:48                                                               ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2011-09-05 15:11                                                                 ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-05 17:21                                                                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-05 19:34                                                                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-05 19:54                                                                       ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-05 19:59                                                                         ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-05 20:27                                                                           ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-09 21:02                                                                   ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-04 20:11                                                     ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-04 19:31                                                   ` richard -rw- weinberger
2011-09-04 19:32                                                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-09-03 14:15                                     ` H.J. Lu
2011-08-31 17:09                       ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-08-31 17:19                         ` Linus Torvalds
2011-08-31 17:38                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-01 11:35                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-10-01 19:38                               ` Jonas Bonn
2012-02-08 21:36                           ` 64-bit time on 32-bit systems H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-01 13:30                         ` RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers Avi Kivity
2011-09-01 14:13                           ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-02  0:49                             ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-02  1:51                               ` H. Peter Anvin
2011-09-02  8:02                                 ` Arnd Bergmann
2011-09-02  8:42                                 ` Pedro Alves
2011-09-01  6:08                     ` Jonas Bonn
2011-09-02  6:17     ` Andy Lutomirski

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