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From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
	Linux/m68k <linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not?
Date: Thu, 14 Jan 2010 15:20:33 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <1263442833.724.325.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200912261212.14264.arnd@arndb.de>


> It's also rather inconsistent with the last socket call that was added, sys_accept4.
> Some architectures that normally define socket calls (parisc, sh) are missing both
> accept4 and recvmmsg, while others that don't have recvmsg now get recvmmsg.
> 
> In particular, i386 has recvmmsg now, which caused the warning that you saw.
> I guess that one should be removed, and maybe we need a better logic for
> determining which syscalls you actually want. Deriving it from asm-generic/unistd.h
> instead of arch/x86/include/asm/unistd_32.h is probably better, but would still
> give the wrong answer for multiplexed system calls like socketcall or ipc on 
> existing architectures.

Anything happening here ? We're getting that warning on ppc too despite
the fact that we use socketcall like x86... Should checksyscall be made
smarter or the syscall just removed from x86 ? :-)

Cheers,
Ben.

  reply	other threads:[~2010-01-14  4:20 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-12-26 10:39 sys_recvmmsg: wire up or not? Geert Uytterhoeven
2009-12-26 11:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2010-01-14  4:20   ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2010-01-14  4:20     ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-14  4:28     ` David Miller
2010-01-14  6:59       ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-14  9:33         ` Russell King
2010-01-15  3:32           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-01-19  7:21         ` Paul Mundt
2010-01-19  7:21           ` Paul Mundt
2010-01-19 23:14           ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt

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