[PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64s: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls

Nicholas Piggin npiggin at gmail.com
Tue Aug 20 15:25:30 AEST 2019


Nicholas Piggin's on August 20, 2019 3:11 pm:
> There is support for the kernel to execute the 'sc 0' instruction and
> make a system call to itself. This is a relic that is unused in the
> tree, therefore untested. It's also highly questionable for modules to
> be doing this.

Oh I'm sorry this is not 64s, it's 64e as well, I just realised title
is wrong. I actually haven't tested 64e either.

Thanks,
Nick


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