Re: sys_mmap2 on different architectures

["H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>]

Benjamin LaHaise wrote:
> On Wed, Feb 22, 2006 at 04:43:47PM -0800, David S. Miller wrote:
>
> > Aha, that part I didn't catch.  Thanks for the clarification
> > Ben.
> >
> > I wonder why we did things that way with a fixed shift...
>
> Without that trick, we'd have needed an extra parameter for the syscall 
> on x86, which is already at the maximum number of registers with 6 
> arguments.  This was easier than changing the syscall ABI. =-)
Well, there is always the trick of making it a pointer.  It was needed 
for pselect() anyway.  A real sys_mmap64 would definitely have been 
cleaner, and will be needed to deal with the 16 TB barrier anyway :)
I personally think the S390 people had the right idea... once you run 
out of registers, just make it a defined part of the ABI that we pass in 
a single pointer to all the arguments.
	-hpa
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