Hi! > > Have a look at this commit that tries to deal with passing 64 bit > > numbers to syscalls. On 32 bit ABI (but not on X32) these needs to be > > split up (accordingly to machine endianity). > > > > https://github.com/linux-test-project/ltp/commit/04afb02b4280a20c262054e8f99a3fad4ad54916 > > > > That is wrong, too. That assumes that there will never be padding > words, which isn't true in the general case, either.
Well, it's still far better than the mess we had previously and it works in most of the cases. However I would love to fix these correctly once for all. > I really believe the proper fix is to use assembly syscall stubs. In > klibc I build a fairly elaborate machinery to autogenerate such syscall > stubs for a variety of architectures. Then it would be nice to share these between klibc and LTP (and possible everybody else). -- Cyril Hrubis chru...@suse.cz -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majord...@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
