linux-kernel - Re: [patch] use __asm__ rather than asm in asm-s390/ptrace.h

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Message-ID: <20070618082343.GB3580@osiris.boeblingen.de.ibm.com>
Date:	Mon, 18 Jun 2007 10:23:43 +0200
From:	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
To:	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>
Cc:	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-s390@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [patch] use __asm__ rather than asm in asm-s390/ptrace.h

On Mon, Jun 18, 2007 at 10:15:18AM +0200, Martin Schwidefsky wrote:
> On Mon, 2007-06-18 at 09:36 +0200, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> > Hmm.. spka is a sort of priviledged instruction and shouldn't be
> > user space visible.
> > I will move it so it's under #ifdef __KERNEL__.
> 
> Yes, I think this is better. On a side node, why did we add psw_set_key
> to ptrace.h? processor.h would have made more sense, no? It sets the key
> in the psw, it is not usable in userspace and ptrace doesn't provide an
> interface for reading/writing to the psw key. So a patch that moves the
> inline to processor.h alongside __load_psw and __load_psw_mask would be
> my solution.

Yes. Moved it to processor.h instead :)
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