linux-kernel - 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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Date:	Wed, 11 Sep 2013 14:00:14 -0700
From:	Andrew Pinski <pinskia@...il.com>
To:	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>
Cc:	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>,
	"linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Pinski <apinski@...ium.com>
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.

On Wed, Sep 11, 2013 at 4:09 AM, Catalin Marinas
<catalin.marinas@....com> wrote:
> 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@...ium.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.

Since fd_set is defined by XPG4.2  to be a struct of an array of
"long"'s, we cannot change the definition in user space.

I tried using the native ppoll/pselect for the ABI first.  It worked
for little-endian just fine but failed hard when big-endian.
If we only care about little-endian arm64 at this point, I can remove
this part of the patch and keep it for when we (Cavium) submits the
big-endian patches.


Thanks,
Andrew Pinski

>
> --
> Catalin
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