From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] syscalls: add __NR_kcmp syscall to generic unistd.h
Date: Mon, 24 Sep 2012 20:01:16 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <201209242001.16373.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1348516024-4992-1-git-send-email-msalter@redhat.com>
On Monday 24 September 2012, Mark Salter wrote:
>
> Commit d97b46a64 added a new syscall (__NR_kcmp) to support checkpoint
> restore. It is currently x86-only, but that restriction will be removed
> in a subsequent patch. Unfortunately, the kernel checksyscalls script
> had a bug which suppressed any warning to other architectures that the
> kcmp syscall was not implemented. A patch to checksyscalls is being
> tested in linux-next and other architectures are seeing warnings about
> kcmp being unimplemented.
>
> This patch adds __NR_kcmp to <asm-generic/unistd.h> so that kcmp is
> wired in for architectures using the generic syscall list.
>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@redhat.com>
Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
If you have other patches lined up, can you add this one as well?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2012-09-24 20:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 3+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2012-09-24 19:47 [PATCH] syscalls: add __NR_kcmp syscall to generic unistd.h Mark Salter
2012-09-24 20:01 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2012-09-24 20:38 ` Mark Salter
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