Re: [GIT PULL] x86 LTO changes for v3.15

[H. Peter Anvin]

On 03/31/2014 05:33 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> 
> I notice that there seems to be a handful of x86 system calls that
> don't use the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macros to define the system call, some
> grepping finds at least ioperm(), modify_ldt(), sigreturn() and
> rt_sigreturn(). There are probably others. They should just be
> converted to SYSCALL_DEFINEx() while at it. No, x86 doesn't need the
> typecasting, but it won't hurt either, and it's good to be consistent.
> 
> I'm not sure why those system calls didn't get converted (other
> x86-specific ones like vm86() _have_ gotten converted), maybe there's
> some reason for it. But I *think* the reason is "nobody noticed".
> 

Pretty much.  If nothing else, it breaks tracing.

	-hpa


--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in
the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
More majordomo info at  http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
Please read the FAQ at  http://www.tux.org/lkml/