On Sun, Mar 11, 2018 at 10:55 AM, Dominik Brodowski <[email protected]> wrote: > The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() > and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() should only be called from userspace > through kernel entry points, but not from the kernel itself. This > will allow cleanups and optimizations to the entry paths *and* to > the parts of the kernel code which currently need to pretend to be > userspace in order to make use of syscalls. >
> + > +/* > + * The kernel should not use call syscalls (i.e., sys_xyzyyz()) directly. > + * Instead, use one of the following functions which work equivalent to > + * the syscall they are named for. "Instead, use one of the functions which work equivalently, e.g. do_xysyyz()"
