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SubjectRe: [PATCH v2 21/31] arm64: 32-bit (compat) applications support
On Mon 2012-08-20 20:34:54, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Monday 20 August 2012, Pavel Machek wrote:
> > > This patch adds support for 32-bit applications. The vectors page is a
> > > binary blob mapped into the application user space at 0xffff0000 (the
> > > AArch64 toolchain does not support compilation of AArch32 code). Full
> > > compatibility with ARMv7 user space is supported. The use of deprecated
> > > ARMv7 functionality (SWP, CP15 barriers) has been disabled by default on
> > > AArch64 kernels and unaligned LDM/STM is not supported.
> > >
> > > Please note that only the ARM 32-bit EABI is supported, so no OABI
> > > compatibility.
> >
> > > +struct compat_statfs {
> > > + int f_type;
> > > + int f_bsize;
> > > + int f_blocks;
> > > + int f_bfree;
> > > + int f_bavail;
> > > + int f_files;
> > > + int f_ffree;
> > > + compat_fsid_t f_fsid;
> > > + int f_namelen; /* SunOS ignores this field. */
> >
> > I'm sure it does. But is it good comment?
>
> Good catch. It seems that some of the other compat platforms (x86,
> sparc, powerpc) have the same thing. I guess the real solution would
> be to introduce an asm-generic/compat.h file that contains a bunch
> of those definitions, like
>
> #ifndef compat_timespec
> struct compat_timespec {
> compat_time_t tv_sec;
> s32 tv_nsec;
> };
> #endif
>
> #ifndef compat_timeval
> struct compat_timeval {
> compat_time_t tv_sec;
> s32 tv_usec;
> };
> #endif

Yes, I guess that would be very good.
Pavel
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