linux-kernel - Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/3] syscalls,x86 Expose arch

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Date:   Thu, 15 Sep 2016 00:59:09 +0300
From:   Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@...il.com>
To:     Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>
Cc:     "Robert O'Callahan" <robert@...llahan.org>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Borislav Petkov <bp@...e.de>,
        Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>,
        "maintainer:X86 ARCHITECTURE (32-BIT AND 64-BIT)" <x86@...nel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        Milosz Tanski <milosz@...in.com>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Zach Brown <zab@...hat.com>,
        Eric B Munson <emunson@...mai.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.cz>,
        "Michael S. Tsirkin" <mst@...hat.com>,
        Andrey Ryabinin <aryabinin@...tuozzo.com>,
        Paul Gortmaker <paul.gortmaker@...driver.com>,
        Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        Dmitry Vyukov <dvyukov@...gle.com>,
        Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@...tuozzo.com>,
        Mateusz Guzik <mguzik@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [RESEND][PATCH v2 1/3] syscalls,x86 Expose arch_prctl on x86-32.

2016-09-15 0:08 GMT+03:00 Kyle Huey <me@...ehuey.com>:
> Signed-off-by: Kyle Huey <khuey@...ehuey.com>
> ---
>  arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl |  1 +
>  arch/x86/kernel/process.c              | 80 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/x86/kernel/process_64.c           | 66 ----------------------------
>  3 files changed, 81 insertions(+), 66 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> index f848572..3b6965b 100644
> --- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> +++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> @@ -386,3 +386,4 @@
>  377    i386    copy_file_range         sys_copy_file_range
>  378    i386    preadv2                 sys_preadv2                     compat_sys_preadv2
>  379    i386    pwritev2                sys_pwritev2                    compat_sys_pwritev2
> +380    i386    arch_prctl              sys_arch_prctl

Why not define it as other 32-bit syscalls with compat_sys_ prefix
with the help of COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE() macro?
Then you could omit code moving, drop is_32 helper.
I miss something obvious?

-- 
             Dmitry