Date: Mon, 1 Nov 2010 09:28:12 -0400 From: John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org> To: freebsd-hackers@freebsd.org Cc: Oleksandr Tymoshenko <gonzo@bluezbox.com> Subject: Re: [PATCH] hwpmc(4) syscall arguments fix Message-ID: <201011010928.12562.jhb@freebsd.org> In-Reply-To: <4CCB62D6.1050808@bluezbox.com> References: <4CCB62D6.1050808@bluezbox.com>
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On Friday, October 29, 2010 8:12:06 pm Oleksandr Tymoshenko wrote: > I ran into problems trying to get hwpmc to work on 64-bit MIPS > system with big endian byte order. Turned out hwpmc syscall handler > is byte-order and register_t size agnostic unlike the rest of syscalls. > The best solution I have so far is a copy sys/sysproto.h approach: > http://people.freebsd.org/~gonzo/patches/hwpmc-syscall.diff > > Any other ideas how to get it fixed in more clean way? Yes, a better way would be to add pmc_syscall() to sys/kern/syscalls.master as a NOSTD system call. Then it's arguments would be included in sysproto.h directly. -- John Baldwin
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