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Date: Mon, 10 Sep 2012 15:01:48 +0100 From: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com> To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> Cc: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>, "linux-arch@...r.kernel.org" <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>, "linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" <linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>, "linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org" <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org> Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 17/31] arm64: System calls handling On Mon, Sep 10, 2012 at 02:51:52PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote: > On Monday 10 September 2012, Catalin Marinas wrote: > > Yes, I've seen these but since Al's patches are not in mainline, I don't > > want to add additional dependencies to the arm64 patches (currently > > based on 3.6-rc4). Once they get into mainline, I'll add a patch that > > converts arm64 to the generic functions above. > > > > For kernel_execve(), I think I can simplify it further and not rely on > > Al's patches (similar to other architectures doing an SVC from kernel): > > Hmm, I thought one of the reasons for Al to do his series was to discourage > people from doing syscalls from kernel space, but I may be misremembering > things. Al? If that was the aim, I'm happy to change the code similar to the arch/arm one. But as I said I would wait until Al's patches get into mainline. -- Catalin -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to majordomo@...r.kernel.org More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
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