From: Ralf Baechle <[email protected]> Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2008 16:03:11 +0000
> On Mon, Dec 15, 2008 at 12:36:14PM +0100, Gerd Hoffmann wrote: > > > Next revision of the patch series, with the alignment issue fixed by > > swapping the last two arguments as suggested by arch maintainers. > > > > I've dropped the now-obsolete wrappers for mips. Ralf, please > > double-check. > > It fixes the alignment issue but still won't work; on MIPS 32-bit userspace > will pass the 64-bit argument in two registers but the 64-bit kernel code > will assume it to be passed in a single registers. Same on 32-bit sparc, and I assume 32-bit powerpc as well. > I'm surprised this works for x86; does x86-64 code really expect 64-bit > arguments as 2 32-bit arguments? Args get pushed onto the stack, so perhaps it works by accident :) -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-api" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
