[PATCH] dma-buf: add support for compat ioctl

Marek Szyprowski m.szyprowski at samsung.com
Tue Feb 21 14:37:27 UTC 2017


Hi Christian,

On 2017-02-21 14:59, Christian König wrote:
> Am 21.02.2017 um 14:21 schrieb Marek Szyprowski:
>> Add compat ioctl support to dma-buf. This lets one to use 
>> DMA_BUF_IOCTL_SYNC
>> ioctl from 32bit application on 64bit kernel. Data structures for 
>> both 32
>> and 64bit modes are same, so there is no need for additional translation
>> layer.
>
> Well I might be wrong, but IIRC compat_ioctl was just optional and if 
> not specified unlocked_ioctl was called instead.
>
> If that is true your patch wouldn't have any effect at all.

Well, then why I got -ENOTTY in the 32bit test app for this ioctl on 
64bit ARM64 kernel without this patch?

Best regards
-- 
Marek Szyprowski, PhD
Samsung R&D Institute Poland



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