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authorDavid Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>2007-06-27 14:10:09 -0700
committerLinus Torvalds <torvalds@woody.linux-foundation.org>2007-06-28 11:38:30 -0700
commitedd5cd4a9424f22b0fa08bef5e299d41befd5622 (patch)
treedba461b19b066c862a2c4e443b2deb9443bc78c5 /scripts
parent2f4d4da8f82c2598b8713f4a01f360f3751d90be (diff)
downloadlinux-edd5cd4a9424f22b0fa08bef5e299d41befd5622.tar.gz
Introduce fixed sys_sync_file_range2() syscall, implement on PowerPC and ARM
Not all the world is an i386.  Many architectures need 64-bit arguments to be
aligned in suitable pairs of registers, and the original
sys_sync_file_range(int, loff_t, loff_t, int) was therefore wasting an
argument register for padding after the first integer.  Since we don't
normally have more than 6 arguments for system calls, that left no room for
the final argument on some architectures.

Fix this by introducing sys_sync_file_range2(int, int, loff_t, loff_t) which
all fits nicely.  In fact, ARM already had that, but called it
sys_arm_sync_file_range.  Move it to fs/sync.c and rename it, then implement
the needed compatibility routine.  And stop the missing syscall check from
bitching about the absence of sys_sync_file_range() if we've implemented
sys_sync_file_range2() instead.

Tested on PPC32 and with 32-bit and 64-bit userspace on PPC64.

Signed-off-by: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@infradead.org>
Acked-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>
Diffstat (limited to 'scripts')
-rwxr-xr-xscripts/checksyscalls.sh5
1 files changed, 5 insertions, 0 deletions
diff --git a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
index f98171f5a3df..0dcc01ce45a6 100755
--- a/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
+++ b/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
@@ -99,6 +99,11 @@ cat << EOF
 #define __IGNORE_setfsuid32
 #define __IGNORE_setfsgid32
 
+/* sync_file_range had a stupid ABI. Allow sync_file_range2 instead */
+#ifdef __NR_sync_file_range2
+#define __IGNORE_sync_file_range
+#endif
+
 /* Unmerged syscalls for AFS, STREAMS, etc. */
 #define __IGNORE_afs_syscall
 #define __IGNORE_getpmsg