From: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
To: Al Viro <viro@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-arch@vger.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
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Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@axis.com>,
David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>,
Tony Luck <tony.luck@intel.com>,
Hirokazu Takata <takata@linux-m32r.org>,
Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
Michal Simek <monstr@monstr.eu>, Jonas Bonn <jonas@southpole.se>,
"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
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Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>,
Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@gmail.com>,
"David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>,
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Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@tilera.com>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Guan Xuetao <gxt@mprc.pku.edu.cn>,
Russell King <linux@arm.linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT] what's in signal.git queue
Date: Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:52:22 +1100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1360835542.6646.5.camel@pasglop> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20130214012539.GQ4503@ZenIV.linux.org.uk>
On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 01:25 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> Mostly it's a unification of signal-related syscalls, both native and compat
> ones; by the end of it we shouldn't have syscalls left in normal
> arch/*/kernel/signal*.c - there are some exceptions due to genuine weirdness
> of arch-specific calling conventions, but that's rare. Another (somewhat
> related) story in there is more compat_sys_something() getting switched to
> COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE, giving us proper argument validation wrappers. Not
> everything got switched, of course, but a lot of those guys has been.
FYI. I'm going to be off to some meeting & bringup work in the US for two weeks
so expect little responsiveness from me on this until after I'm back (March 1st).
Cheers,
Ben.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2013-02-14 9:55 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 5+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2013-02-14 1:25 [RFC][CFT] what's in signal.git queue Al Viro
2013-02-14 9:52 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt [this message]
2013-02-14 10:23 ` Martin Schwidefsky
2013-02-15 7:29 ` Jonas Bonn
2013-02-20 19:36 ` rkuo
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