linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] ftrace: unify arch_syscall

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Message-ID: <8bd0f97a1001262050g1b6ce455o4b767251c8bebc95@mail.gmail.com>
Date:	Tue, 26 Jan 2010 23:50:58 -0500
From:	Mike Frysinger <vapier.adi@...il.com>
To:	rostedt@...dmis.org
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
	Hendrik Brueckner <brueckner@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] ftrace: unify arch_syscall_addr() implementations

On Fri, Jan 22, 2010 at 09:36, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Fri, 2010-01-22 at 08:43 -0500, Mike Frysinger wrote:
>> Every arch_syscall_addr() implementation thus far is the same, so unify
>> them as a default weak in common code so more arches don't have to waste
>> time copying & pasting this simple function.  The Blackfin version is
>> going to be exactly the same.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>
>> ---
>> note: only thing that needs double checking is s390 and sparc where they
>> declared the sys_call_table as an array of ints.  considering this table
>> is supposed to be an array of function pointers, this seems like more of
>> a typo to me ...
>
> I would not be too sure. s390 is very strange, and I would definitely
> want to get an Ack from the arch maintainers first.

i think everyone has checked in with v3 ...
-mike
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