Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 11 Sep 2013 12:09:01 +0100 | From | Catalin Marinas <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 3/5] FS: Export poll_select_copy_remaining and rename poll_select_copy_remaining in compat.c so it does not pick the wrong copy. |
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On Mon, Sep 09, 2013 at 10:32:57PM +0100, Andrew Pinski wrote: > The ILP32 ABI in ARM64 uses a slightly different pselect from either > the compat or even the native LP64 ABI. We would want to reuse some > of the code path that are used as the size of the timespec is the > same, so this patch exports poll_select_copy_remaining from > fs/select.c and renames the copy in fs/compat.c to make sure that it > is not being used. > > Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
I think this patch has to wait until we review the ILP32 ABI for arm64. When I looked at this some time ago I thought we can just use the native arm64 pselect6 and ppoll. Once we agree that's not possible we can push this patch. On its own it doesn't have much value.
-- Catalin
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