This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
x86-64, kcmp: The kcmp system call can be common
to the 3.5-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
x86-64-kcmp-the-kcmp-system-call-can-be-common.patch
and it can be found in the queue-3.5 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <[email protected]> know about it.
>From eaf4ce6c5fed6b4c55f7efcd5fc3477435cab5e9 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
Date: Wed, 1 Aug 2012 15:59:58 -0700
Subject: x86-64, kcmp: The kcmp system call can be common
From: "H. Peter Anvin" <[email protected]>
commit eaf4ce6c5fed6b4c55f7efcd5fc3477435cab5e9 upstream.
We already use the same system call handler for i386 and x86-64, there
is absolutely no reason x32 can't use the same system call, too.
Signed-off-by: H. Peter Anvin <[email protected]>
Cc: H.J. Lu <[email protected]>
Cc: Cyrill Gorcunov <[email protected]>
Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/n/[email protected]
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <[email protected]>
---
arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)
--- a/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -318,7 +318,7 @@
309 common getcpu sys_getcpu
310 64 process_vm_readv sys_process_vm_readv
311 64 process_vm_writev sys_process_vm_writev
-312 64 kcmp sys_kcmp
+312 common kcmp sys_kcmp
#
# x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
Patches currently in stable-queue which might be from [email protected] are
queue-3.5/x86-64-kcmp-the-kcmp-system-call-can-be-common.patch
--
To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe stable" in
the body of a message to [email protected]
More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
