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From: Andi Kleen <ak@suse.de>
To: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, akpm@osdl.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs
Date: 20 Oct 2004 21:25:35 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <p73d5zdyyxc.fsf@verdi.suse.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <3506.1098283455@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>

David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com> writes:
>  /* Syscall protocol:
> diff -uNrp linux-2.6.9-bk4/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h linux-2.6.9-bk4-keys/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h
> --- linux-2.6.9-bk4/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h	2004-10-19 10:42:16.000000000 +0100
> +++ linux-2.6.9-bk4-keys/include/asm-x86_64/unistd.h	2004-10-20 14:06:01.645026869 +0100
> @@ -556,8 +556,14 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_mq_getsetattr, sys_mq_get
>  __SYSCALL(__NR_kexec_load, sys_ni_syscall)
>  #define __NR_waitid		247
>  __SYSCALL(__NR_waitid, sys_waitid)
> +#define __NR_add_key		248
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_add_key, sys_add_key)

Hey, I already allocated 248 for setaltroot. And no, you cannot
allocate system calls on your own without going through the 
architecture maintainer. The normal workflow is that you add
them to i386 and the other follow on their own.

Andrew, please don't apply the x86-64 parts of this.

-Andi

       reply	other threads:[~2004-10-20 19:40 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
     [not found] <3506.1098283455@redhat.com.suse.lists.linux.kernel>
2004-10-20 19:25 ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2004-10-20 19:48   ` [PATCH] Add key management syscalls to non-i386 archs David Howells
2004-10-20 20:22     ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-21  9:20     ` Arjan van de Ven
2004-10-20 14:44 David Howells
2004-10-20 15:29 ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-20 17:50   ` Andrew Morton
2004-10-20 18:18     ` Christoph Hellwig
2004-10-20 16:42 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2004-10-20 17:08 ` Arnd Bergmann
2004-10-20 22:01 ` David S. Miller

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