From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754790Ab2AXHRX (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:17:23 -0500 Received: from mail-bk0-f46.google.com ([209.85.214.46]:44952 "EHLO mail-bk0-f46.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1754446Ab2AXHRW (ORCPT ); Tue, 24 Jan 2012 02:17:22 -0500 Date: Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:17:16 +0400 From: Cyrill Gorcunov To: "H. Peter Anvin" Cc: KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Andrew Morton , Pavel Emelyanov , Serge Hallyn , Kees Cook , Tejun Heo , Andrew Vagin , "Eric W. Biederman" , Alexey Dobriyan , KOSAKI Motohiro , Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , Glauber Costa , Andi Kleen , Matt Helsley , Pekka Enberg , Eric Dumazet , Vasiliy Kulikov , Valdis.Kletnieks@vt.edu Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v4 Message-ID: <20120124071716.GC29735@moon> References: <20120123142036.025893883@openvz.org> <20120123142436.258631438@openvz.org> <20120124111655.b29264d2.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com> <20120124064719.GA29735@moon> <4F1E57F3.6020607@zytor.com> MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <4F1E57F3.6020607@zytor.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On Mon, Jan 23, 2012 at 11:04:19PM -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: > On 01/23/2012 10:47 PM, Cyrill Gorcunov wrote: > >> > >> Why under /arch ? > >> > > > > Hi Kame, > > > > because I've tested it under x86 only. Once someone > > confirm it's needed on some else arch and does work > > as expected -- it wont be a problem to make it system > > wide. Until then -- I think better to stick with > > at least tested case. > > ... > > That's not a reason to put it in arch/ ... that's possibly a reason to > not map the system call on other architectures yet. > Where it should live then? In kernel/ or mm/ ? Cyrill