Re: [PATCH 0/6 v3] sycalls: Remove args i and n from syscall_get_arguments()

From: Linus Torvalds
Date: Thu Apr 04 2019 - 21:24:39 EST


On Thu, Apr 4, 2019 at 3:28 AM Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> Is this something that can go into this -rc release or would you want
> me to wait till the next merge window?
>
> The reason I ask, is that there's two arch patches in this series that
> have stable tags attached to them. But I moved things around such that
> they are applied before the global arch patches are and can be applied
> independently.
>
> Should I move those two patches up front and just add those to this
> release cycle, or would you like the entire series now?

I think I can take the entire series. It's removing code and fixing a
couple of bugs in the process. Even if not all changes are pure fixes,
it looks good to me.

I assume you've actually used this and can trace system calls with
arguments properly, so that it's all tested at least on x86-64?

Linus