From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
klibc@zytor.com,
Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sys_mmap2 on different architectures
Date: Thu, 23 Feb 2006 09:43:51 -0800 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <43FDF457.50502@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060223173216.GA20322@linux-mips.org>
Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> A variable which happens to be fixed to 12 in practice. As explained by
> Ben the API is only relevant to 32-bit kernels and afaik PAGE_SHIFT
> other than 12 has only been successfully been tested on 64-bit kernels.
>
No, that's not correct. This API is relevant to 32-bit *USERSPACE*. If
you support 32-bit userspace on a 64-bit kernel, it applies to 64-bit
kernels, too.
-hpa
prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-02-23 17:43 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
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 [this message]
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