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Message-ID: <8d880fbe-5a20-c027-4c8f-8a464d81dcbb@linux.intel.com>
Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2016 08:44:24 -0800
From: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
To: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>
Cc: linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
linux-mm@...ck.org, Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] mm/pkeys: generate pkey system call code only if
ARCH_HAS_PKEYS is selected
On 11/14/2016 03:12 AM, Heiko Carstens wrote:
> Having code for the pkey_mprotect, pkey_alloc and pkey_free system
> calls makes only sense if ARCH_HAS_PKEYS is selected. If not selected
> these system calls will always return -ENOSPC or -EINVAL.
>
> To simplify things and have less code generate the pkey system call
> code only if ARCH_HAS_PKEYS is selected.
>
> For architectures which have already wired up the system calls, but do
> not select ARCH_HAS_PKEYS this will result in less generated code and
> a different return code: the three system calls will now always return
> -ENOSYS, using the cond_syscall mechanism.
>
> For architectures which have not wired up the system calls less
> unreachable code will be generated.
>
> Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
This is fine with me. FWIW:
Acked-by: Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@...ux.intel.com>
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