Re: [PATCH] mmap.2: describe the 5level paging hack

2019-02-25 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
e address was rounded up to the next page > .\" boundary; since 2.6.24, it is rounded down! > The address of the new mapping is returned as the result of the call. > Hi Jann, A few comments came in on this patch. Is there anything from those comments that should be rolled into the text? Thanks, Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/

Re: clock_gettime.2: _COARSE clocks are not always faster...

2016-04-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
On 04/18/2016 04:12 PM, Michael Kerrisk (man-pages) wrote: > Hello Rasmus, > > On 04/09/2016 05:50 PM, Rasmus Villemoes wrote: >> Hi Michael >> >> The other day, I was curious how the vdso was implemented on ppc, and I >> noted that neither ppc32 or ppc64 handle

Re: clock_gettime.2: _COARSE clocks are not always faster...

2016-04-18 Thread Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)
*COARSE flags, I added: [[ Requires per-architecture support, and probably also architecture support for this flag in the vdso(7). ]] Thanks! Michael -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Progra

Re: [PATCH] Add fast little-endian switch system call

2008-04-28 Thread Michael Kerrisk
On Mon, Apr 28, 2008 at 4:43 PM, Christoph Hellwig <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > Please see Michael Kerrisk on userspace ABI updates. A nice little > manpage for this gimmick would be helpful, and maybe help other > platforms that want one aswell to implement the same API. Thanks