linux-kernel - Re: faults and signals

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Date:	Tue, 10 Oct 2006 04:04:27 +0200
From:	Nick Piggin <npiggin@...e.de>
To:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
Cc:	Nick Piggin <nickpiggin@...oo.com.au>,
	Hugh Dickins <hugh@...itas.com>,
	Linux Memory Management <linux-mm@...ck.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...l.org>, Jes Sorensen <jes@....com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: faults and signals

On Tue, Oct 10, 2006 at 12:00:01PM +1000, Benjamin Herrenschmidt wrote:
> 
> > Yes. Tho it's also fairly easy to just add an argument to the wrapper
> > and fix all archs... but yeah, I will play around.
> 
> Actually, user_mode(ptregs) is standard, we could add a ptregs arg to
> the wrapper... or just get rid of it and fix archs, it's not like it was
> that hard. There aren't that many callers :)
> 
> Is there any reason why we actually need that wrapper ?

Not much reason. If you go through and fix up all callers then
that should be fine.

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