[PATCH] hwpmc(4) syscall arguments fix
John Baldwin
jhb at freebsd.org
Mon Nov 1 15:20:03 UTC 2010
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.
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John Baldwin
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