From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1751396AbVKOJGQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:06:16 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S1751398AbVKOJGQ (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:06:16 -0500 Received: from pentafluge.infradead.org ([213.146.154.40]:11977 "EHLO pentafluge.infradead.org") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751396AbVKOJGO (ORCPT ); Tue, 15 Nov 2005 04:06:14 -0500 Date: Tue, 15 Nov 2005 09:06:12 +0000 From: Christoph Hellwig To: Arnd Bergmann 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 Message-ID: <20051115090612.GA22160@infradead.org> Mail-Followup-To: Christoph Hellwig , Arnd Bergmann , 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 References: <200511142329.jAENTfmS004600@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <200511150050.27556.arnd@arndb.de> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <200511150050.27556.arnd@arndb.de> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.2.1i X-SRS-Rewrite: SMTP reverse-path rewritten from by pentafluge.infradead.org See http://www.infradead.org/rpr.html Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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?