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From: Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>
To: Andi Kleen <ak@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Ian Munsie <imunsie@au1.ibm.com>,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@ozlabs.org,
	Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>,
	Steven Rostedt <rostedt@goodmis.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
	Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>,
	Michael Ellerman <michael@ellerman.id.au>,
	Alexander Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>,
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	David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
	Oleg Nesterov <oleg@redhat.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
	Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@suse.de>,
	Dinakar Guniguntala <dino@in.ibm.com>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@elte.hu>,
	Eric Biederman <ebiederm@xmission.com>,
	Simon Kagstrom <simon.kagstrom@netinsight.net>,
	WANG Cong <amwang@redhat.com>, Sam Ravnborg <sam@ravnborg.org>,
	Rol
Subject: Re: [PATCH 31/40] trace syscalls: Convert various generic compat syscalls
Date: Wed, 23 Jun 2010 12:29:34 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20100623102931.GB5242@nowhere> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <4C21DFBA.2070202@linux.intel.com>

On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:19:38PM +0200, Andi Kleen wrote:
> , Ian Munsie wrote:
>> From: Ian Munsie<imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
>>
>> This patch converts numerous trivial compat syscalls through the generic
>> kernel code to use the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE family of macros.
>
> Why? This just makes the code look uglier and the functions harder
> to grep for.


Because it makes them usable with syscall tracing.

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  reply	other threads:[~2010-06-23 10:29 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 16+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <1277287401-28571-1-git-send-email-imunsie@au1.ibm.com>
2010-06-23 10:02 ` [PATCH 15/40] compat: convert fs compat to use COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE#N() macros Ian Munsie
2010-06-23 10:03 ` [PATCH 31/40] trace syscalls: Convert various generic compat syscalls Ian Munsie
2010-06-23 10:19   ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-23 10:29     ` Frederic Weisbecker [this message]
2010-06-23 10:37       ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-23 11:38         ` Frederic Weisbecker
2010-06-23 12:35           ` Andi Kleen
2010-06-23 12:41             ` Christoph Hellwig
2010-06-23 15:51           ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-06-24 12:05         ` Michal Marek
2010-06-24 12:05         ` Michal Marek
2010-06-24 12:05         ` Michal Marek
2010-06-24 12:05         ` Michal Marek
2010-06-23 10:30     ` KOSAKI Motohiro
2010-06-23 10:03 ` [PATCH 32/40] trace syscalls: Record metadata for syscalls with their own wrappers Ian Munsie
2010-06-23 10:03 ` [PATCH 34/40] trace syscalls: Convert generic syscalls without long return type Ian Munsie

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