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,
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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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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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