Re: [PATCH] Common compat_sys_sysinfo

On Sun, Jan 07, 2007 at 03:13:19PM +0000, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> > +compat_sys_sysinfo(struct compat_sysinfo __user *info)
> > +{
> > +	extern int do_sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info);
> 
> Please always put prototypes for functions with external linkage in
> header files.
> 

Ah, crud, I stuck that there to reduce the number of patched files when I let
Thibaut test it, but forgot to remove it from the final patch.

> > +int do_sysinfo(struct sysinfo *info)
> >  {
> > -	struct sysinfo val;
> >  	unsigned long mem_total, sav_total;
> >  	unsigned int mem_unit, bitcount;
> >  	unsigned long seq;
> >  
> > -	memset((char *)&val, 0, sizeof(struct sysinfo));
> > +	memset((char *)info, 0, sizeof(struct sysinfo));
> 
> No need for the cast here.
>

Ok.

> 
> 
> Btw, in case you have some spare time there are some other syscalls
> that want similar treatment.  sendfile(64) come to mind as these
> could use a do_sendfile helper aswell, the various stat and readdir/getdents
> variants could do with some unification, the various timing calls
> like alarm and get/settimeofday are common across architectures,
> sysctl should be the same everywhere, the uid/git related syscalls
> should be consolidated, sched_rr_get_interval looks trivial,
> and last but not least we probably want a unified mechanisms to deal
> with the 64bit arguments that are broken up into two 32bit ones (not just
> for emulation but also for 32it BE architectures)
> 

I can definitely look into this.

> Okay, okay - we should probably put this into a Wiki somewhere :)
> 

Heh. :)

Cheers,
	Kyle