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To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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> Did you notice the use of the address conversion macro? Maybe I missed
> something myself, but I suppose this will fail on s390 if the msb of arg
> is not cleared.

True. A(arg) removes the high order bit from arg. This can't be done
in the system call wrapper because in general arg is a 32 bit parameter.

blue skies,
   Martin


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