[PATCH 12/40] x86, compat: convert ia32 layer to use

Frederic Weisbecker fweisbec at gmail.com
Wed Jun 23 21:41:17 EST 2010


On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:46:04PM +0200, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Wed, Jun 23, 2010 at 12:36:21PM +0200, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> > I think we wanted that to keep the sys32_ prefixed based naming, to avoid
> > collisions with generic compat handler names.
> 
> For native syscalls we do this by adding a arch prefix inside the
> syscall name, e.g.:
> 
> arch/s390/kernel/sys_s390.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE(s390_fallocate)(int fd, int mode, loff_t offset,
> arch/sparc/kernel/sys_sparc_64.c:SYSCALL_DEFINE1(sparc_pipe_real, struct pt_regs *, regs)


In fact we sort of wanted to standardize the name of arch overriden compat
syscalls, so that userspace programs playing with syscalls tracing won't have
to deal with arch naming differences.



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