Re: [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

2012-03-15 Thread Arnd Bergmann
On Thursday 15 March 2012, Chris Metcalf wrote: > > Somewhat belatedly, I'm looking to push this through the "tile" tree. > Andrew Morton has been keeping it in his tree but I figure I should push it > since it directly affects "tile" and currently no one else. Sounds good. > However, it would

Re: [PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

2012-03-14 Thread Chris Metcalf
Somewhat belatedly, I'm looking to push this through the "tile" tree. Andrew Morton has been keeping it in his tree but I figure I should push it since it directly affects "tile" and currently no one else. However, it would be nice if anyone could provide a Reviewed-by or Acked-by on the patch.

[PATCH v3] ipc: provide generic compat versions of IPC syscalls

2011-12-12 Thread Chris Metcalf
When using the "compat" APIs, architectures will generally want to be able to make direct syscalls to msgsnd(), shmctl(), etc., and in the kernel we would want them to be handled directly by compat_sys_xxx() functions, as is true for other compat syscalls. However, for historical reasons, several