From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: brgerst@gmail.com, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
peterz@infradead.org, bp@alien8.de, tglx@linutronix.de,
akpm@linux-foundation.org, mingo@kernel.org,
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry: (Re-) rename __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max to __NR_syscall_compat_max
Date: Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:22:17 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <55808579.4050004@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <tip-bace7117d3fb59a6ed7ea1aa6c8994df6a28a72a@git.kernel.org>
On 06/08/2015 03:24 PM, tip-bot for Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Commit-ID: bace7117d3fb59a6ed7ea1aa6c8994df6a28a72a
> Gitweb: http://git.kernel.org/tip/bace7117d3fb59a6ed7ea1aa6c8994df6a28a72a
> Author: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 21:20:26 +0200
> Committer: Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org>
> CommitDate: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 23:43:38 +0200
>
> x86/asm/entry: (Re-)rename __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max to __NR_syscall_compat_max
>
> Brian Gerst noticed that I did a weird rename in the following commit:
>
> b2502b418e63 ("x86/asm/entry: Untangle 'system_call' into two entry points: entry_SYSCALL_64 and entry_INT80_32")
>
> which renamed __NR_ia32_syscall_max to __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max.
>
> Now the original name was a misnomer, but the new one is a misnomer as well,
> as all the 32-bit compat syscall entry points (sysenter, syscall) share the
> system call table, not just the INT80 based one.
>
> Rename it to __NR_syscall_compat_max.
>
The original one wasn't really a misnomer, as it referred to the ia32
system calls specifically, but this works too.
-hpa
next parent reply other threads:[~2015-06-16 20:23 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
[not found] <tip-bace7117d3fb59a6ed7ea1aa6c8994df6a28a72a@git.kernel.org>
2015-06-16 20:22 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2015-06-18 16:49 ` [RFC] Rename various 'IA32' uses in arch/x86/ code Ingo Molnar
2015-06-18 17:49 ` Brian Gerst
2015-06-18 19:37 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-19 7:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-19 17:19 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-21 13:44 ` Ingo Molnar
[not found] ` <CA+55aFzKOyZ4ZA6zFvCNqqqkYT8hLQOXAgJRj-k+LRqvQ1iiyQ@mail.gmail.com>
2015-06-18 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2015-06-18 21:13 ` Ingo Molnar
2015-06-18 22:11 ` Brian Gerst
2015-06-19 7:08 ` Ingo Molnar
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