Re: -mm merge plans for 2.6.21

[Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com>]

On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 09:34:47PM +0000, Ralf Baechle wrote:
> On Sat, Feb 10, 2007 at 10:32:07AM +0000, David Woodhouse wrote:
> 
> > On Sat, 2007-02-10 at 11:22 +0100, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > > Which remembers me that I think that MIPS is using the non-compat version
> > > of sys_epoll_pwait for compat syscalls. But maybe MIPS doesn't need a 
> > > compat
> > > syscall for some reason. Dunno. 
> > 
> > It's OK as long as the 64-bit kernel, N32 and O32 userspace all agree
> > there there's 32 bits of padding between the fields of this structure:
> > 
> > struct epoll_event {
> >         __u32 events;
> >         __u64 data;
> > };
> > 
> > I suspect it's a fairly safe bet that N32 userspace agrees; if the O32
> > ABI is different then it would need the compat syscall.
> 
> That is correct - and apparently for all ABIs because I wasn't able to find
> a compat_sys_epoll_pwait at all.

Hmm.. so you don't need to do some fancy compat conversion for the sigset_t
that gets passed? Why is that? I don't get it...