linux-kernel - Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry: (Re-) rename __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max to __NR_syscall_compat

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Date:	Tue, 16 Jun 2015 13:22:17 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	brgerst@...il.com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	peterz@...radead.org, bp@...en8.de, tglx@...utronix.de,
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Subject: Re: [tip:x86/asm] x86/asm/entry: (Re-) rename __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max
 to __NR_syscall_compat_max

On 06/08/2015 03:24 PM, tip-bot for Ingo Molnar wrote:
> Commit-ID:  bace7117d3fb59a6ed7ea1aa6c8994df6a28a72a
> Gitweb:     http://git.kernel.org/tip/bace7117d3fb59a6ed7ea1aa6c8994df6a28a72a
> Author:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> AuthorDate: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 21:20:26 +0200
> Committer:  Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
> CommitDate: Mon, 8 Jun 2015 23:43:38 +0200
> 
> x86/asm/entry: (Re-)rename __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max to __NR_syscall_compat_max
> 
> Brian Gerst noticed that I did a weird rename in the following commit:
> 
>    b2502b418e63 ("x86/asm/entry: Untangle 'system_call' into two entry points: entry_SYSCALL_64 and entry_INT80_32")
> 
> which renamed __NR_ia32_syscall_max to __NR_entry_INT80_compat_max.
> 
> Now the original name was a misnomer, but the new one is a misnomer as well,
> as all the 32-bit compat syscall entry points (sysenter, syscall) share the
> system call table, not just the INT80 based one.
> 
> Rename it to __NR_syscall_compat_max.
> 

The original one wasn't really a misnomer, as it referred to the ia32
system calls specifically, but this works too.

	-hpa


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