linux-kernel - Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2

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Date:	Thu, 7 Jun 2007 14:41:52 -0700 (PDT)
From:	Davide Libenzi <davidel@...ilserver.org>
To:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
cc:	Eric Dumazet <dada1@...mosbay.com>,
	Alan Cox <alan@...rguk.ukuu.org.uk>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Ulrich Drepper <drepper@...hat.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>
Subject: Re: [patch 7/8] fdmap v2 - implement sys_socket2

On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Linus Torvalds wrote:

> On Thu, 7 Jun 2007, Eric Dumazet wrote:
> > 
> > This is a nice idea, but 32/64 compat code is going to hate it :)
> 
> It should be fairly simple for 32/64-bit compat code too.
> 
> The compat code should just call the compat system call 
> 
> > syscall_indirect() would be writen in assembly for each arch, since there is
> > no generic syscall table. Thats really a lot of work, especially if we want to
> > mess with signal mask, umask ...
> 
> No no no. That would be horribly idiotic.
> 
> The thing should be 99% generic code, ie we would have
> 
> 	syscall_indirect(..)
> 	{
> 		long retval;
> 
> 		.. set up signals/flags ..
> 		retval = arch_syscall_indirect(syscall, args);
> 		.. unsetup signals/flags ..
> 		return retval;
> 	}
> 
> 	compat_syscall_indirect(..)
> 	{
> 		int retval;
> 
> 		.. set up signals/flags ..
> 		retval = compat_arch_syscall_indirect(syscall, args);
> 		.. unsetup signals/flags ..
> 		return retval;
> 	}
> 
> and the *only* thing that each architecture would need to do is that 
> (trivial) arch_syscall_indirect() thing (and the compat version, if 
> applicable). And those literally should be generally pretty damn trivial.

Ok, I like this better honestly. I really did not want to win the Oscar 
for the 2007 Syscall Spammer of the year :)



- Davide


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