Re: [GIT PULL] x86/paravirt for v2.6.33

From: H. Peter Anvin
Date: Wed Dec 09 2009 - 14:37:30 EST


On 12/09/2009 11:25 AM, Brian Gerst wrote:
>
> I had started working on a patchset like this when this issue came up
> the first time. I'll get it up to date and send it out. It would be
> nice if this could be done for all syscalls, so that
> asmlinkage_protect() isn't needed.
>

asmlinkage_protect() is evil in the extreme and really should be killed.

In fact, I started working on a patchset to eliminate asmlinkage completely.

-hpa
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