From: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Date: Tue, 18 Sep 2012 18:02:06 +0100
> This function is used by sparc, powerpc and arm64 for compat support. > The patch adds a generic implementation which calls do_sendfile() > directly and avoids set_fs(). > > The sparc architecture has wrappers for the sign extensions while > powerpc relies on the compiler to do the this. The patch adds a wrapper > for powerpc to handle the u32->int type conversion. > > compat_sys_sendfile64() can be replaced by a sys_sendfile() call since > compat_loff_t has the same size as off_t on a 64-bit system. On powerpc, > similar wrapper needs to be added for the u32->int conversion. > > The reason for a single patch covering both powerpc and sparc is to keep > it bisectable (and simple), otherwise kernel building may fail with > mismatched function declarations. > > Signed-off-by: Catalin Marinas <[email protected]> Acked-by: David S. Miller <[email protected]> -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [email protected] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
