Daniel Walker wrote: >On Fri, 2007-04-27 at 11:42 -0400, Peter Keilty wrote: > > > >>>There is a read(), and a vread() did you modify the slow syscall path to >>>use the vread()? >>> >>> >>> >>> >>I miss type, read(). >> >> > >John mentioned that he thought fsys_mmio_ptr could be held in the vread >pointer. vread() is used in x86 for vsyscalls. It looks like you've used >the update_vsyscall() which is also used for vsyscalls. So vread could >also be used .. Have you considered that at all? > > No, but yes it can be done, overloading the meaning. It would need to change in the future if vread was needed. I have no strong argument against using it. Although we may still need the IA64 define, I removed 32bit read mmio and if that is brought back the fast syscall patch call will need to have a field in the clocksource struct that would indicated that. Waiting on comments about that... John and discuss this awhile back felt it was not needed, may prove wrong. >Daniel > > > - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-ia64" in the body of a message to majordomo@vger.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.htmlReceived on Sat Apr 28 10:32:48 2007
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