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From: Michael Buesch <mbuesch@freenet.de>
To: Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>
Cc: Jan Engelhardt <jengelh@linux01.gwdg.de>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>, Adrian Bunk <bunk@stusta.de>
Subject: Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited
Date: Tue, 7 Dec 2004 01:20:00 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <200412070120.05996.mbuesch@freenet.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1102349255.25841.189.camel@localhost.localdomain>

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Quoting Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>:
> Done!
> 
> Updated on http://home.stny.rr.com/rostedt/dynamic as well as included
> in this email for ease.  
> 
> Now, I guess you can still get around this if the "Bad Vendor" were to
> write a GPL module with their added system calls, and have that module
> include hooks to their binary module.  So, until we can fix that, I
> guess Linus won't allow for this module to be included in the main line.
> 
> -- Steve
[SNIP]
> Index: arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
> ===================================================================
> --- arch/i386/kernel/entry.S (revision 15)
> +++ arch/i386/kernel/entry.S (working copy)
> @@ -906,5 +906,10 @@
>   .long sys_vperfctr_unlink
>   .long sys_vperfctr_iresume
>   .long sys_vperfctr_read
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DSYSCALL
> + .long sys_dsyscall  /* 295 */
> +#else
> + .long sys_ni_syscall  /* 295 */
> +#endif

Wouldn't it be better to do a
cond_syscall(sys_dsyscall)
in kernel/sys_ni.c

-- 
Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]



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  parent reply	other threads:[~2004-12-07  0:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2004-11-29 15:11 [PATCH][RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited Steven Rostedt
2004-11-29 15:17 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-11-29 15:36   ` Steven Rostedt
2004-11-30 19:30     ` Kristian Sørensen
2004-11-29 16:41   ` [RFC] " Jan Engelhardt
2004-11-29 17:10     ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-05 23:46       ` Adrian Bunk
2004-12-06 16:07         ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 17:16           ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 17:32             ` Zwane Mwaikambo
2004-12-06 17:57               ` linux-os
2004-12-06 18:03               ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 18:18               ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-12-07  0:20           ` Michael Buesch [this message]
2004-12-07  0:57             ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 21:14     ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-06 22:01       ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-06 22:20         ` H. Peter Anvin
2004-12-06 22:38           ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-14 23:14             ` Werner Almesberger
2004-12-15  2:14               ` Steven Rostedt
2004-12-15  3:35                 ` Steven Rostedt

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