Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 27 Jul 2005 13:33:17 -0700 (PDT) | Subject | Re: [patch] inotify: ppc64 syscalls. | From | "David S. Miller" <> |
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From: Robert Love <rml@novell.com> Date: Wed, 27 Jul 2005 16:31:02 -0400
> On Wed, 2005-07-27 at 13:27 -0700, David S. Miller wrote: > > > You'll notice that sys_ppc32.c has a ton of shims which purely > > exist to sign extend "int" system call arguments. Sparc64 does > > something similarly, but in assembler so that we don't eat the > > overhead of a full stack frame just to sign extend arguments. > > Yah, but it looked like they did the sign extend thing for every int but > file descriptors, and fd's are the only int's we have.
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