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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. -- 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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