Re: [PATCH RFC 4/8] mips: implement syscall restart generically

[Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>]

On Sun, Oct 23, 2011 at 12:19:58PM +0200, Jonas Bonn wrote:

> Manipulating task state to effect re-execution of an interrupted syscall
> used to be purely architecture specific code.  However, as most arch's
> were essentially just making minor adjustments to almost identical logic,
> this code could be moved to a common implementation.
> 
> The generic variant introduces the function handle_syscall_restart() to be
> called after get_signal_to_deliver().  The architecture specific register
> manipulations required to effect the actual restart are now implemented
> in the generic syscall interface found in asm/syscall.h
> 
> This patch transitions this architecture's signal handling code over to
> using the generic syscall restart code by:
> 
> i)  Implementing the register manipulations in asm/syscall.h
> ii) Replacing the restart logic with a call to handle_syscall_restart

Nice cleanup.

Any reason why you add empty version of syscall_get_arguments and
syscall_set_version?  A non-functional version that causes a silent
failure is way worse than something that fails at compile time.

  Ralf