Re: [PATCH 4/7] Remove the use of _syscallX macros in UML

[H. Peter Anvin]

Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> User mode linux uses _syscallX() to call into the host kernel.
> The recommended way to do this is to use the syscall() function
> from libc.

Not really.

syscall() is a horrible botch; it is in fact unimplementable (without 
enormous switch statements) on a number of architectures.

	-hpa
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