Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1758721Ab2HUWCX (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:02:23 -0400 Received: from cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com ([217.140.96.50]:33500 "EHLO cam-admin0.cambridge.arm.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1758697Ab2HUWCU (ORCPT ); Tue, 21 Aug 2012 18:02:20 -0400 Date: Tue, 21 Aug 2012 23:01:45 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas To: Arnd Bergmann Cc: "linux-arch@vger.kernel.org" , "linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org" , "linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org" , Will Deacon Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 17/31] arm64: System calls handling Message-ID: <20120821220145.GA27934@arm.com> References: <1344966752-16102-1-git-send-email-catalin.marinas@arm.com> <201208151422.16335.arnd@arndb.de> <20120821175122.GI12708@arm.com> <201208212014.01837.arnd@arndb.de> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <201208212014.01837.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.20 (2009-06-14) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Content-Length: 2014 Lines: 49 On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 09:14:01PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Tuesday 21 August 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > > > +asmlinkage long sys_mmap(unsigned long addr, unsigned long len, > > > > + unsigned long prot, unsigned long flags, > > > > + unsigned long fd, off_t off) > > > > +{ > > > > + if (offset_in_page(off) != 0) > > > > + return -EINVAL; > > > > + > > > > + return sys_mmap_pgoff(addr, len, prot, flags, fd, off >> PAGE_SHIFT); > > > > +} > > > > > > I think > > > > > > #define sys_mmap sys_mmap_pgoff > > > > There are slightly different semantics with the last argument of > > sys_mmap() which takes a byte offset. The sys_mmap_pgoff() function > > takes the offset shifted by PAGE_SHIFT (which is the same as sys_mmap2). > > > > Looking at the other architectures, it makes sense to use a generic > > sys_mmap() implementation similar to the one above (or the ia-64, seems > > to be the most complete). > > Why that? The generic sys_mmap_pgoff was specifically added so new architectures > could just use that instead of having their own wrappers, see f8b72560. As I understand, sys_mmap_pgoff can be used instead of sys_mmap2 on new 32-bit architectures. But on 64-bit architectures we don't have sys_mmap2, only sys_mmap with the difference that the last argument is the offset in bytes (and multiple of PAGE_SIZE) rather than in pages. So unless we change the meaning of this last argument for sys_mmap, we cannot just define it to sys_mmap_pgoff. Since the other 64-bit architectures seem to have a sys_mmap wrapper that does this: sys_mmap_pgoff(..., off >> PAGE_SHIFT); I think AArch64 should also use the same sys_mmap convention. We can make this wrapper generic. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/