From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Andreas Schwab Subject: Re: Add private syscalls to support NPTL Date: Tue, 18 Aug 2009 10:06:49 +0200 Message-ID: References: <4A89D037.7090807@codesourcery.com> <4A8A54F9.3080100@codesourcery.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Return-path: Received: from mx2.redhat.com ([66.187.237.31]:54447 "EHLO mx2.redhat.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1750853AbZHRIK7 (ORCPT ); Tue, 18 Aug 2009 04:10:59 -0400 In-Reply-To: <4A8A54F9.3080100@codesourcery.com> (Maxim Kuvyrkov's message of "Tue, 18 Aug 2009 11:15:05 +0400") Sender: linux-m68k-owner@vger.kernel.org List-Id: linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org To: Maxim Kuvyrkov Cc: Geert Uytterhoeven , linux-m68k@vger.kernel.org Maxim Kuvyrkov writes: > The need would be (a) use numbers that are very unlikely to used for > normal syscalls, I don't understand. These are normal syscalls. > and (b) using -1..-4 for the syscall numbers works out quite nicely > for the code in entry.S. It adds just a couple of instructions to the > execution path. Those additional instructions are totally unnecessary. Andreas. -- Andreas Schwab, schwab@linux-m68k.org GPG Key fingerprint = 58CA 54C7 6D53 942B 1756 01D3 44D5 214B 8276 4ED5 "And now for something completely different."