Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64s: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls

2019-08-27 Thread Nicholas Piggin
Christophe Leroy's on August 27, 2019 4:14 pm: > Euh ... That's a duplicate of [PATCH 2/4] "powerpc/64: remove support > for kernel-mode syscalls" ? Yeah sorry I changed the title and got myself confused. Thanks, Nick

Re: [PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64s: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls

2019-08-26 Thread Christophe Leroy
Euh ... That's a duplicate of [PATCH 2/4] "powerpc/64: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls" ? Le 27/08/2019 à 05:30, Nicholas Piggin a écrit : 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, ther

[PATCH 2/4] powerpc/64s: remove support for kernel-mode syscalls

2019-08-26 Thread Nicholas Piggin
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. Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin --- arch/powerpc/kernel/entry_64.S