linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][PATCH] fcntl: F_[SG]ETOWN

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Date:	Mon, 03 Aug 2009 17:21:33 +0200
From:	Peter Zijlstra <a.p.zijlstra@...llo.nl>
To:	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc:	oleg@...hat.com, eranian@...il.com, mingo@...e.hu,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, tglx@...utronix.de,
	robert.richter@....com, paulus@...ba.org, andi@...stfloor.org,
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	mucci@...s.utk.edu, terpstra@...s.utk.edu,
	perfmon2-devel@...ts.sourceforge.net, mtk.manpages@...glemail.com,
	roland@...hat.com
Subject: Re: [RFC][PATCH] fcntl: F_[SG]ETOWN_TID

On Fri, 2009-07-31 at 14:11 -0700, Andrew Morton wrote:
> 
> 
> > arch/parisc/include/asm/fcntl.h |    2 +
> > fs/fcntl.c                      |   64 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
> > include/asm-generic/fcntl.h     |    4 ++
> > include/linux/fs.h              |   11 +++++-
> > net/socket.c                    |    2 +-
> 
> OK.
> 
> 
> 
> Alpha has private definitions of F_SETSIG and F_GETSIG which are
> identical to the generic ones.  That's somewhat logical, given that
> alpha's F_SETOWN/F_GETOWN _differ_ from the asm-generic ones.
> 
> Alpha appears to have made the decision to spell out _all_ the F_*
> flags, given that some of them are different.  That has some merit, I
> guess.
> 
> But your patch broke that.

Right, all I did was validate that I didn't overlap with any of the
existing fcntl numbers. I can explicitly add them to alpha if that makes
people happy..



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