linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from default list

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Message-ID: <5823871.3DMLUx5Xtp@wuerfel>
Date:   Sat, 29 Oct 2016 23:54:08 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
Cc:     James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        Vineet Gupta <vgupta@...opsys.com>,
        Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@....com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Mark Salter <msalter@...hat.com>,
        Aurelien Jacquiot <a-jacquiot@...com>,
        Yoshinori Sato <ysato@...rs.sourceforge.jp>,
        Richard Kuo <rkuo@...eaurora.org>,
        Ley Foon Tan <lftan@...era.com>,
        Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
        Chen Liqin <liqin.linux@...il.com>,
        Lennox Wu <lennox.wu@...il.com>,
        Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...lanox.com>,
        Guan Xuetao <gxt@...c.pku.edu.cn>,
        Andrew Pinski <Andrew.Pinski@...ium.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from default list

On Saturday, October 22, 2016 3:14:04 PM CEST Yury Norov wrote:
> The newer prlimit64 syscall provides all the functionality provided by
> the getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls and adds the pid of target process,
> so future architectures won't need to include getrlimit and setrlimit.
> 
> Therefore drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from the generic syscall
> list unless __ARCH_WANT_SET_GET_RLIMIT is defined by the architecture's
> unistd.h prior to including asm-generic/unistd.h, and adjust all
> architectures using the generic syscall list to define it so that no
> in-tree architectures are affected.
> 

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>

Can you include this patch in your ilp32 series?