From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, eranian@hpl.hp.com, ak@muc.de,
benh@kernel.crashing.org, paulus@samba.org,
stephane.eranian@hp.com, tony.luck@intel.com
Subject: Re: + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree
Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:06:12 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20051115090612.GA22160@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <200511150050.27556.arnd@arndb.de>
On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 12:50:26AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > --- 25/include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h~perfmon2-reserve-system-calls???????Mon Nov 14 15:27:32 2005
> > +++ 25-akpm/include/asm-powerpc/unistd.h????????Mon Nov 14 15:27:32 2005
> > @@ -296,8 +296,20 @@
> > ?#define __NR_inotify_init??????275
> > ?#define __NR_inotify_add_watch?276
> > ?#define __NR_inotify_rm_watch??277
> > +#define __NR_pfm_create_context????????278
> > +#define __NR_pfm_write_pmcs????279
> > +#define __NR_pfm_write_pmds????280
> > +#define __NR_pfm_read_pmds?????281
> > +#define __NR_pfm_load_context??282
> > +#define __NR_pfm_start?????????283
> > +#define __NR_pfm_stop??????????284
> > +#define __NR_pfm_restart???????285
> > +#define __NR_pfm_create_evtsets????????286
> > +#define __NR_pfm_getinfo_evtsets 287
> > +#define __NR_pfm_delete_evtsets 288
> > +#define __NR_pfm_unload_context????????289
> > ?
> > -#define __NR_syscalls??????????278
> > +#define __NR_syscalls??????????290
I thought we didn't reserve syscall numbers?
anyway, this is an awfull lot of syscalls numbers for what essentially
is a driver not core kernel functionality. I think we should do an API
review first.
and why didn't this patch get sent to lkml for review?
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2005-11-15 9:06 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <200511142329.jAENTfmS004600@shell0.pdx.osdl.net>
2005-11-14 23:50 ` + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree Arnd Bergmann
2005-11-15 0:04 ` Paul Mackerras
2005-11-15 0:09 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-15 1:12 ` Andrew Morton
2005-11-15 8:00 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-15 8:08 ` Arjan van de Ven
2005-11-15 13:40 ` Andi Kleen
2005-11-15 9:06 ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2005-11-16 10:24 ` Stephane Eranian
2005-11-15 15:28 Luck, Tony
2005-11-15 15:49 ` Stephane Eranian
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2005-11-15 16:58 Luck, Tony
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