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authorIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-21 17:19:50 +0200
committerIngo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>2008-07-21 17:19:50 +0200
commiteb6a12c2428d21a9f3e0f1a50e927d5fd80fc3d0 (patch)
tree5ac6f43899648abeab1d43aad3107f664e7f13d5 /arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c
parentc4762aba0b1f72659aae9ce37b772ca8bd8f06f4 (diff)
parent14b395e35d1afdd8019d11b92e28041fad591b71 (diff)
Merge branch 'linus' into cpus4096-for-linus
Conflicts: net/sunrpc/svc.c Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>
Diffstat (limited to 'arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c')
-rw-r--r--arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c9
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;