On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 10:02:04PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Dominik Brodowski
> wrote:
> > Here is a re-spin of the first set of patches which reduce the number of
> > syscall invocations from within the kernel; the RFC may be found at
> >
> > The rationale fo
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 7:20 AM, Al Viro wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:54:23AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
>>
>> A lot of the issues here is that the initramfs / do_mount code
>> is written as if it was user space code, but in kernel space. E.g.
>> using file desriptors etc.
Yeah, some
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 01:54:23AM -0700, Christoph Hellwig wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 05:54:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > Yes. And honestly, I'd rather have these kinds of "just change the
> > calling convention" almost automated patches separately - and then the
> > cleanups later.
On Fri, Mar 16, 2018 at 09:01:11AM +, Zhang, Ning A wrote:
> 在 2018-03-15四的 20:04 +0100，Dominik Brodowski写道：
> > Here is a re-spin of the first set of patches which reduce the number of
> > syscall invocations from within the kernel; the RFC may be found at
> >
> > The rationale for this chang
在 2018-03-15四的 20:04 +0100，Dominik Brodowski写道：
> Here is a re-spin of the first set of patches which reduce the number of
> syscall invocations from within the kernel; the RFC may be found at
>
> The rationale for this change is described in patch 1 as follows:
>
> The syscall entry points
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 05:54:27PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Yes. And honestly, I'd rather have these kinds of "just change the
> calling convention" almost automated patches separately - and then the
> cleanups later.
>
> Mixing the calling convention change and the cleanup together is just
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 5:38 PM, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
>
> I don't think this patch series should wait for any of these cleanups,
> though. We need these patches to change the x86_64 internal syscall
> function signature, which we've been wanting to do for a little while.
Yes. And honestly, I'd
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 9:02 PM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Dominik Brodowski
> wrote:
>> Here is a re-spin of the first set of patches which reduce the number of
>> syscall invocations from within the kernel; the RFC may be found at
>>
>> The rationale for this chang
On Thu, Mar 15, 2018 at 8:04 PM, Dominik Brodowski
wrote:
> Here is a re-spin of the first set of patches which reduce the number of
> syscall invocations from within the kernel; the RFC may be found at
>
> The rationale for this change is described in patch 1 as follows:
>
> The syscall e
Here is a re-spin of the first set of patches which reduce the number of
syscall invocations from within the kernel; the RFC may be found at
The rationale for this change is described in patch 1 as follows:
The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx()
and CO
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