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author | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-22 17:12:37 +1000 |
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committer | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org> | 2008-07-22 17:12:37 +1000 |
commit | 8725f25acc656c1522d48a6746055099efdaca4c (patch) | |
tree | e241424fa58178ed6c2a95a4eb931ea83dbea33c /arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c | |
parent | c69cccc95fe4b90dde5fe33e6a3b77880b534fa4 (diff) | |
parent | 93ded9b8fd42abe2c3607097963d8de6ad9117eb (diff) |
Merge commit 'origin/master'
Manually fixed up:
drivers/net/fs_enet/fs_enet-main.c
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c')
-rw-r--r-- | arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c | 9 |
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c b/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c index af1bdc897488..3523c8d12eda 100644 --- a/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c +++ b/arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c @@ -40,7 +40,14 @@ #include <asm/sysmips.h> #include <asm/uaccess.h> -asmlinkage int sys_pipe(nabi_no_regargs volatile struct pt_regs regs) +/* + * For historic reasons the pipe(2) syscall on MIPS has an unusual calling + * convention. It returns results in registers $v0 / $v1 which means there + * is no need for it to do verify the validity of a userspace pointer + * argument. Historically that used to be expensive in Linux. These days + * the performance advantage is negligible. + */ +asmlinkage int sysm_pipe(nabi_no_regargs volatile struct pt_regs regs) { int fd[2]; int error, res; |