linux-kernel - Re: [patch 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR

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Message-Id: <20120124164008.aa1714bd.kamezawa.hiroyu@jp.fujitsu.com>
Date:	Tue, 24 Jan 2012 16:40:08 +0900
From:	KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki <kamezawa.hiroyu@...fujitsu.com>
To:	Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com>
Cc:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Pavel Emelyanov <xemul@...allels.com>,
	Serge Hallyn <serge.hallyn@...onical.com>,
	Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>, Tejun Heo <tj@...nel.org>,
	Andrew Vagin <avagin@...nvz.org>,
	"Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
	Alexey Dobriyan <adobriyan@...il.com>,
	KOSAKI Motohiro <kosaki.motohiro@...il.com>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...e.hu>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Glauber Costa <glommer@...allels.com>,
	Andi Kleen <andi@...stfloor.org>,
	Matt Helsley <matthltc@...ibm.com>,
	Pekka Enberg <penberg@...nel.org>,
	Eric Dumazet <eric.dumazet@...il.com>,
	Vasiliy Kulikov <segoon@...nwall.com>, Valdis.Kletnieks@...edu
Subject: Re: [patch 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v4

On Tue, 24 Jan 2012 11:38:42 +0400
Cyrill Gorcunov <gorcunov@...il.com> wrote:

> On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:20:31PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
> ...
> > > > 
> > > > That's not a reason to put it in arch/ ... that's possibly a reason to
> > > > not map the system call on other architectures yet.
> > > > 
> > > 
> > > Where it should live then? In kernel/ or mm/ ?
> > > 
> > 
> > kernel/checkpoint_restart ?
> > 
> > gathering related changes to a directory may help developpers joins later....
> > To me, this makes seeing git log easy ;)
> >  
> 
> Such separate directory implies everything related to c/r should live there,
> it also implies (I think) that code which is under CHECKPOINT_RESTORE should
> be moved there as well, so I'm not sure, Kame ;) I guess mm/ will be a good
> place since these are operations with memory pointers.
> 

please do as you like. 
-Kame

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