Re: [PATCH][COMPAT] compat_sys_fcntl{,64} 1/9 Generic part

Martin Schwidefsky (schwidefsky@de.ibm.com)
Tue, 11 Mar 2003 13:20:39 +0100

> Did you notice the use of the address conversion macro? Maybe I missed
> something myself, but I suppose this will fail on s390 if the msb of arg
> is not cleared.

True. A(arg) removes the high order bit from arg. This can't be done
in the system call wrapper because in general arg is a 32 bit parameter.

blue skies,
Martin

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