From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751096AbWGCKkI (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:40:08 -0400 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751103AbWGCKkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:40:07 -0400 Received: from colin.muc.de ([193.149.48.1]:51462 "EHLO mail.muc.de") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751096AbWGCKkH (ORCPT ); Mon, 3 Jul 2006 06:40:07 -0400 Date: 3 Jul 2006 12:40:05 +0200 Date: Mon, 3 Jul 2006 12:40:05 +0200 From: Andi Kleen To: David Woodhouse Cc: drepper@redhat.com, akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/2] pselect/ppoll support on x86_64 Message-ID: <20060703104005.GB5415@muc.de> References: <1151919711.3000.82.camel@pmac.infradead.org> <1151920035.3000.88.camel@pmac.infradead.org> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <1151920035.3000.88.camel@pmac.infradead.org> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:47:15AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote: > This adds support for the pselect and ppoll system calls on x86_64. > > Andi suggests that it might be too late for the 2.6.18 merge window -- I > disagree. I consider it a bug fix, since I don't think we intend x86_64 > to be a secondary architecture and lag behind i386 and PowerPC in its > system call support. Andi's TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK implementation is > heavily based on the i386 version, where it's had lots of testing > already. I've got burned badly by these patches last time and the 2.6.18 merge window is closed. I'll add them for testing, but it's 2.6.19 material. -Andi