From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: "Björn Steinbrink" <B.Steinbrink@gmx.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
Russell King <rmk+lkml@arm.linux.org.uk>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>,
rusty@rustcorp.com.au, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__
Date: Tue, 22 Aug 2006 12:06:59 +0200 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <200608221207.00344.arnd@arndb.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20060822080046.GA22572@atjola.homenet>
On Tuesday 22 August 2006 10:00, Björn Steinbrink wrote:
> I'm working on a patch loosely based on Arnd's that changes the
> in-kernel syscall macros to directly return the error codes.
I think that is still going in the wrong direction. Traditionally,
the macros in unistd.h were meant for user space, but we're now
discouraging that strongly (i.e. they are inside of #ifdef __KERNEL__).
The only in-kernel users on the _syscall macros used to by the
__KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ that we're trying to kill.
The logical consequence should be that we remove the _syscall macros
entirely, for all architectures.
UML can be converted to use the syscall function provided by libc
in order to call the host OS.
Arnd <><
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2006-08-22 10:07 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <20060819073031.GA25711@atjola.homenet>
[not found] ` <200608201501.29296.arnd@arndb.de>
[not found] ` <20060820134745.GA11843@atjola.homenet>
2006-08-20 17:13 ` [PATCH] introduce kernel_execve function to replace __KERNEL_SYSCALLS__ Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-20 17:36 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-20 18:25 ` Andrew Morton
2006-08-20 18:32 ` Chase Venters
2006-08-20 19:45 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 19:50 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-20 20:11 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 20:20 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-20 20:36 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-20 20:40 ` Arjan van de Ven
2006-08-21 1:55 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-20 20:33 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-20 19:31 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-21 0:36 ` Paul Mackerras
2006-08-21 15:12 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-21 15:17 ` Russell King
2006-08-22 7:29 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2006-08-22 8:00 ` Björn Steinbrink
2006-08-22 10:06 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2006-08-22 13:39 ` Jeff Dike
2006-08-22 15:13 ` Arnd Bergmann
2006-08-22 15:37 ` Jeff Dike
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