linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from default list

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Date:   Sun, 23 Oct 2016 13:57:27 -0700
From:   Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>,
        "linux-arch@...r.kernel.or" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.or>
Cc:     Vineet Gupta <Vineet.Gupta1@...opsys.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
        Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@...com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
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        Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>,
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        Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from
 default list

On 10/22/2016 05:14 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
> The newer prlimit64 syscall provides all the functionality provided by
> the getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls and adds the pid of target process,
> so future architectures won't need to include getrlimit and setrlimit.
>
> Therefore drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from the generic syscall
> list unless __ARCH_WANT_SET_GET_RLIMIT is defined by the architecture's
> unistd.h prior to including asm-generic/unistd.h, and adjust all
> architectures using the generic syscall list to define it so that no
> in-tree architectures are affected.
>
> Cc: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>

Acked-by: Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com> #arch/arc bits

Thx,
-Vineet