From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Mathieu Desnoyers Subject: Allocating sys_membarrier syscall number on other archs Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 04:04:42 +0000 (UTC) Message-ID: <1721242013.30076.1440648282669.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: Sender: linux-api-owner-u79uwXL29TY76Z2rM5mHXA@public.gmane.org To: Andrew Morton Cc: LKML , linux-api List-Id: linux-api@vger.kernel.org Hi Andrew, The sys_membarrier patches you have in your tree target x86 32-64 and generic, but I did not allocate the system call number on other architectures to minimize the amount of collisions, and because I do not have all those architectures handy. How would you recommend to proceed to allocate those ? sys_membarrier is pretty much architecture agnostic: it takes two integer parameters, and the only function it calls, synchronize_sched(), is available on all architectures. Thanks, Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com