Re: [PATCH v2 13/36] x86/ioport: add ksys_ioperm() helper; remove in-kernel calls to sys_ioperm()

From: Christoph Hellwig
Date: Fri Mar 16 2018 - 04:43:17 EST


On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 08:05:06PM +0100, Dominik Brodowski wrote:
> Using this helper allows us to avoid the in-kernel calls to the sys_ioperm()
> syscall.

Why not do_ioperm or kernel_ioperm as for most other syscalls?