On Tue, 4 Dec 2007, Steven Rostedt wrote: > > Seems that arg3 is not used here and since the timer is 64 bits, we can > store the bottom 32 bits in arg2 and the top in arg3 (this will work for > both 32 and 64 bit archs).
Yes. That should work fine. The restart logic sometimes results in odd calling conventions, and quite frankly, we could just change how "restart_block" looks too. There is nothing that says that it has to be unsigned long arg0, arg1, arg2, arg3 and that particular layout was just picked on a whim. The only issue is: - we don't want the restart block to be *too* large, since it's part of the thread info. - but we need to have enough room for all the system calls that want to use the restart block, and preferably in a reasonable format. So far, using "unsigned long" has been good enough, in that it's big enough for a pointer and all normal arguments, but if something really deeply wants another format or a guaranteed 64-bit word regardless of architecture, we could make one or more of the arguments be "u64" instead. But in this case, since there is already unused argument space, I think that doing the "32 high bits + 32 low bits" is probably the best option. Linus -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/