Re: lcall disappeared? kernel CVS destabilized?

[Andi Kleen]

Andrea Arcangeli <andrea@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes:

> I'm porting the seccomp patch to 2.6.10, do you have an idea where lcall
> (i.e. call gates for binary compatibility with other OS) went? I can't
> find it anywhere. Looks like it was dropped but I must be sure of that,
> and especially I must be sure that you don't add it again without me
> noticing that I had to patch it ;). Is lcall definitely dead code that I
> can forget about or am I missing something? Thanks.

hch removed it some time ago because nobody used it anymore (Linux ABI
is not supported on 2.6) and it showed some potential security issues 

-Andi
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