Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 1 Apr 2014 20:01:45 -0400 | From | Steven Rostedt <> | Subject | Re: [GIT PULL] x86 LTO changes for v3.15 |
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On Tue, 01 Apr 2014 11:54:23 -0700 "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@linux.intel.com> wrote:
> 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.
Why would they break tracing? I remember there was a issue with compat calls, are these related to that?
-- Steve
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