Re: [PATCH 2/2] pselect/ppoll support on x86_64

[Andi Kleen]

On Mon, Jul 03, 2006 at 10:47:15AM +0100, David Woodhouse wrote:
> This adds support for the pselect and ppoll system calls on x86_64. 
> 
> Andi suggests that it might be too late for the 2.6.18 merge window -- I
> disagree. I consider it a bug fix, since I don't think we intend x86_64
> to be a secondary architecture and lag behind i386 and PowerPC in its
> system call support. Andi's TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK implementation is
> heavily based on the i386 version, where it's had lots of testing
> already.

I've got burned badly by these patches last time and the 2.6.18 merge
window is closed.

I'll add them for testing, but it's 2.6.19 material.

-Andi
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