linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 16/36] fs: add ksys_dup{,3}() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys

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Date:   Fri, 16 Mar 2018 01:48:34 -0700
From:   Christoph Hellwig <hch@...radead.org>
To:     Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, torvalds@...ux-foundation.org,
        viro@...iv.linux.org.uk, luto@...nel.org, mingo@...nel.org,
        akpm@...ux-foundation.org, arnd@...db.de
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 16/36] fs: add ksys_dup{,3}() helper; remove in-kernel
 calls to sys_dup{,3}()

On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:05:09PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Using ksys_dup() and ksys_dup3() as helper functions allows us to
> avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_dup() and sys_dup3() syscalls.

do_dup/dup3 or kern_dup/dup3, please.