linux-kernel - Re: [RFC][CFT] what's in signal.git queue

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Message-ID: <1360835542.6646.5.camel@pasglop>
Date:	Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:52:22 +1100
From:	Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>
To:	Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>
Cc:	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
	Haavard Skinnemoen <hskinnemoen@...il.com>,
	Mike Frysinger <vapier@...too.org>,
	Jesper Nilsson <jesper.nilsson@...s.com>,
	David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
	Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
	Hirokazu Takata <takata@...ux-m32r.org>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
	Michal Simek <monstr@...str.eu>,
	Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
	"James E.J. Bottomley" <jejb@...isc-linux.org>,
	Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
	Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
	Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
	"David S. Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
	Paul Mundt <lethal@...ux-sh.org>,
	Chris Zankel <chris@...kel.net>,
	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...era.com>,
	Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
	Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
	Russell King <linux@....linux.org.uk>
Subject: Re: [RFC][CFT] what's in signal.git queue

On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 01:25 +0000, Al Viro wrote:
> Mostly it's a unification of signal-related syscalls, both native and compat
> ones; by the end of it we shouldn't have syscalls left in normal
> arch/*/kernel/signal*.c - there are some exceptions due to genuine weirdness
> of arch-specific calling conventions, but that's rare.  Another (somewhat
> related) story in there is more compat_sys_something() getting switched to
> COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE, giving us proper argument validation wrappers.  Not
> everything got switched, of course, but a lot of those guys has been.

FYI. I'm going to be off to some meeting & bringup work in the US for two weeks
so expect little responsiveness from me on this until after I'm back (March 1st).

Cheers,
Ben.


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