linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] i386/x86_64 signal handler arg fixes

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Date:	Thu, 14 Sep 2006 12:11:52 +0200
From:	Andi Kleen <ak@...e.de>
To:	"Albert Cahalan" <acahalan@...il.com>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, "Andrew Morton" <akpm@...l.org>,
	"Linus Torvalds" <torvalds@...l.org>, hpa@...or.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH] i386/x86_64 signal handler arg fixes

On Thursday 14 September 2006 10:34, Albert Cahalan wrote:

> For i386, the non-RT frame is wrong. It was using the raw sig value
> instead of the translated value, and did not pass the semi-documented
> extra parameters.

The translation is not needed because x86-64 doesn't support iBCS at all
and afaik it was only used for that.

>
> For x86-64, the regparm 3 calling convention was simply missing.

Ok that should be added.

Can you please send a single patch that just does this?

-Andi

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