[PATCH 7/8] ppc64: SPU file system

Greg KH greg at kroah.com
Tue May 17 08:49:10 EST 2005


On Tue, May 17, 2005 at 12:22:56AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Dinsdag 17 Mai 2005 00:27, Greg KH wrote:
> > Huh? ?We can handle syscalls in modules these days pretty simply. ?Look
> > at how nfs and others do it.
> 
> Well afaics, nfs works around this issue by having fs/nfsctl.o always
> as a builtin and abstract the calls through a file system using
> read/write. That would be Ben's idea again, i.e. not actually
> using a system call.
> 
> The only widely used module that I'm aware of ever implementing a system
> call was the TUX web accelerator that that used a hack in entry.S
> and its own dynamic registration.

Sorry, but I was thinking of the cond_syscall() stuff, to allow syscalls
in modules or code that just happens to not be built into the kernel.

thanks,

greg k-h



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