linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] ia64: wire up system calls

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Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 17:09:02 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com>
Cc:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>, linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org,
        Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 7/7] ia64: wire up system calls

On 10/11/18, Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@...hat.com> wrote:
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 09:24:43AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:26 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org> wrote:
>
>> > +# pkey_mprotect requires an architecture specific implementation
>> > +328    common  pkey_mprotect                   sys_pkey_mprotect
>> > +# pkey_alloc requires an architecture specific implementation
>> > +329    common  pkey_alloc                      sys_pkey_alloc
>> > +# pkey_free requires an architecture specific implementation
>> > +330    common  pkey_free                       sys_pkey_free
>>
>> One comment for all pkey calls would be sufficient. More importantly
>> it requires hardware support that ia64 does not have AFAICT.
>
> Except it has[1].
>

Ok, then we should definitely assign the system call numbers.

      Arnd