Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] syscalls,x86 Expose arch_prctl on x86-32.

[Kyle Huey <me-OhBmq/TcCDJWk0Htik3J/w@public.gmane.org>]

On Fri, Sep 16, 2016 at 12:50 AM, Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org> wrote:
> On Thu, 15 Sep 2016, Kyle Huey wrote:
>
> First of all, please add a cover letter [PATCH 0/N] to your patch series
> and send it with something which provides proper mail threading.
> See: git-send-email, quilt

I did ... seems like using git-send-email with
--cc-cmd=scripts/get_maintainer.pl is not a good idea since people get
CCd to some parts of the thread and not others.

https://lkml.org/lkml/2016/9/15/811

>> arch_prctl is currently 64-bit only. Wire it up for 32-bits, as a no-op for
>> now. Rename the second arg to a more generic name.
>
> This changelog is useless.
>
> - it does not provide any rationale for this change, i.e. why this is
>   required. Just because its 64bit only is not a reason.
>
> - "Rename the second arg to a more generic name" does not give
>   any useful information.
>
> Misleading information is worse than no information.
>
> Further your patch does 5 things at once. It wants to be split into parts:
>
> 1) Rename do_arch_prctl() and change the argument name,
>
>> -long do_arch_prctl(struct task_struct *task, int code, unsigned long addr)
>> +long do_arch_prctl_64(struct task_struct *task, int code, unsigned long arg2)
>
> 2) Provide do_arch_prctl_common() and hook it up to the arch_prctl syscall
>
>> -long sys_arch_prctl(int code, unsigned long addr)
>> +SYSCALL_DEFINE2(arch_prctl, int, code, unsigned long, arg2)
>>  {
>> -     return do_arch_prctl(current, code, addr);
>> +     long ret;
>> +
>> +     ret = do_arch_prctl_64(current, code, arg2);
>> +     if (ret == -EINVAL)
>> +             ret = do_arch_prctl_common(current, code, arg2);
>> +
>> +     return ret;
>>  }
>
> 3) Implement the compat version

Ok.

- Kyle