[v2,1/1] powerpc: Individual System V IPC system calls

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tuesday 13 October 2015 20:38:42 Michael Ellerman wrote:
> On Tue, 2015-13-10 at 01:49:28 UTC, Sam bobroff wrote:
> > This patch provides individual system call numbers for the following
> > System V IPC system calls, on PowerPC, so that they do not need to be
> > multiplexed:
> > * semop, semget, semctl, semtimedop
> > * msgsnd, msgrcv, msgget, msgctl
> > * shmat, shmdt, shmget, shmctl
> 
> You tested this right?   Tell me about it.
> 
> Also we could make these available to SPU programs, but I don't think there's
> any point, no one's going to do a libc update for that.
> 

The existing sys_ipc is also in the list of exceptions that are
not exported to the SPU. I don't remember what the reason for this
is, but there probably was one.

	Arnd