linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 08/24] Allow a 32bit ABI to use the naming of the 64bit ABI syscalls to avoid confusion of not splitting the registers

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Date:	Thu, 04 Sep 2014 12:11:04 +0200
From:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org
Cc:	Andrew Pinski <apinski@...ium.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pinskia@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 08/24] Allow a 32bit ABI to use the naming of the 64bit ABI syscalls to avoid confusion of not splitting the registers

On Wednesday 03 September 2014 14:19:02 Andrew Pinski wrote:
> + * For 32bit abis where 64bit can be passed via one
> + * register, use the same naming as the 64bit ones
> + * as they will only have a 64 bit off_t.
>   */
> -#if __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 && !defined(__SYSCALL_COMPAT)
> +#if (__BITS_PER_LONG == 64 && !defined(__SYSCALL_COMPAT)) || \
> +       defined(__ARCH_WANT_64BIT_SYSCALLS)
> 

I'm not sure if __ARCH_WANT_64BIT_SYSCALLS is the best name for
this, since it's really only about off_t. It took me a while
to understand what you are doing here.

	Arnd
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