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

[Thomas Gleixner <tglx-hfZtesqFncYOwBW4kG4KsQ@public.gmane.org>]

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 

> 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
  
Thanks,

	tflx