[PATCH 08/25] arm64: ilp32: add documentation on the ILP32 ABI for ARM64

From: Yury Norov
Date: Tue Apr 05 2016 - 18:11:22 EST


Based on Andrew Pinski's patch-series.

Signed-off-by: Yury Norov <ynorov@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt | 13 +++++++++++++
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create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt

diff --git a/Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt b/Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt
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+ILP32 AARCH64 SYSCALL ABI
+=========================
+
+This document describes the ILP32 syscall ABI and where it differs
+from the generic compat linux syscall interface.
+
+Syscalls which normally would pass 64bit values as two arguments;
+now pass the 64bit value as one argument.
+
+struct rt_sigframe is redefined and contains struct compat_siginfo,
+as compat syscalls expects, and struct ilp32_sigframe, to handle
+AARCH64 register set and 32-bit userspace register representation.
+
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2.5.0