From: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
To: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Cc: akpm@osdl.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace
Date: Wed, 10 Aug 2005 10:36:31 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <25167.1123666591@warthog.cambridge.redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20050810080057.GA5295@lst.de>
Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de> wrote:
> The sys_ptrace boilerplate code (everything outside the big switch
> statement for the arch-specific requests) is shared by most
> architectures. This patch moves it to kernel/ptrace.c and leaves the
> arch-specific code as arch_ptrace.
Looks okay for FRV.
My biggest concern with doing things like this is that it eats away at the
kernel stack space available for a syscall, though I don't think it'll be too
much of a problem in this case.
Is there also a way to get rid of the lock_kernel() call?
David
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-08-10 9:36 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 25+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2005-08-10 8:00 [PATCH] consolidate sys_ptrace Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-10 8:33 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2005-08-10 8:38 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-10 8:43 ` Andi Kleen
2005-08-10 9:36 ` David Howells [this message]
2005-08-10 12:46 ` Paul Mundt
2005-08-10 13:15 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-08-10 13:28 ` Jeff Dike
2005-08-10 17:08 ` Richard Henderson
2005-08-11 10:44 ` Roman Zippel
2005-08-11 13:51 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-08-11 16:51 ` Russell King
2005-08-11 17:32 ` Richard Henderson
2005-08-11 17:33 ` Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2005-08-10 16:59 Luck, Tony
2005-08-11 0:20 ` Stephen Rothwell
2005-11-01 5:09 [PATCH " Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-01 5:12 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-01 9:58 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-01 10:30 ` Ralf Baechle
2005-11-01 11:37 ` David Howells
2005-11-02 4:31 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-05 0:19 ` Christoph Hellwig
2005-11-01 18:12 ` Russell King
2005-11-02 11:21 ` Paul Mundt
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