Re: [patch 00/18] entry: Consolidate and rework syscall entry handling

Heiko Carstens <[email protected]>
Newsgroups gmane.linux.ports.ppc.embedded
Message-ID <20260831085056.34274A00-hca__37654.6519504458$1788166325$gmane$org@linux.ibm.com>
On Thu, Aug 27, 2026 at 03:22:35PM -0700, H. Peter Anvin wrote:
> This isn't a hard thing to solve in any way: replacing the pointer argument
> with a two-element structure return would do the trick. As far as I know,
> *all* architectures that support Linux support returning structures with two
> register-sized values in registers.

That is unfortunately not true. The s390 ABI defines that structures,
regardless of size, are returned in a return value buffer allocated by
the caller.
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