Messages in this thread | | | Date | Thu, 23 Feb 2006 12:39:07 -0500 | From | Benjamin LaHaise <> | Subject | Re: sys_mmap2 on different architectures |
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On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:43:47PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote: > Aha, that part I didn't catch. Thanks for the clarification > Ben. > > I wonder why we did things that way with a fixed shift...
Without that trick, we'd have needed an extra parameter for the syscall on x86, which is already at the maximum number of registers with 6 arguments. This was easier than changing the syscall ABI. =-)
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