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

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Message-ID: <20161029220538.GB20037@yury-N73SV>
Date:   Sun, 30 Oct 2016 01:05:38 +0300
From:   Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:     James Hogan <james.hogan@...tec.com>, <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] asm-generic: Drop getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls from
 default list

On Sat, Oct 29, 2016 at 11:54:08PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> 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?

Already did.
https://github.com/norov/linux/commits/ilp32-4.9