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Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls

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* Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> wrote:

> On Fri, Sep 11, 2015 at 3:14 AM, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> > On Friday 11 September 2015 11:54:50 Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> >> To make sure I don't miss any (it seems I missed recvmmsg and sendmmsg for
> >> the socketcall case, sigh), this is the list of ipc syscalls to implement?
> >>
> >>     sys_msgget
> >>     sys_msgctl
> >>     sys_msgrcv
> >>     sys_msgsnd
> >>     sys_semget
> >>     sys_semctl
> >>     sys_semtimedop
> >>     sys_shmget
> >>     sys_shmctl
> >>     sys_shmat
> >>     sys_shmdt
> >>
> >> sys_semop() seems to be unneeded because it can be implemented using
> >> sys_semtimedop()?
> >>
> >
> > Yes, that list looks right. IPC also includes a set of six sys_mq_*
> > call, but I believe that everyone already has those as they are not
> > covered by sys_ipc.
> >
> > For y2038 compatibility, we will likely add a new variant of
> > semtimedop that takes a 64-bit timespec. While the argument passed
> > there is a relative time that will never need to be longer than 68
> > years, we need to accommodate user space that defines timespec
> > in a sane way, and converting the argument in libc would be awkward.
> >
> 
> I missed sys_ipc entirely.
> 
> Ingo, Thomas, want to just wire those up, too?  I can send a patch
> next week, but it'll be as trivial as the socket one.

Yeah, sure - split out system calls are so much better (and slightly faster) than 
omnibus demuxers.

Thanks,

	Ingo
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Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-07 15:00 +0200
  Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@de.ibm.com> - 2015-09-11 10:30 +0200
    Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-11 10:50 +0200
      Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> - 2015-09-11 12:00 +0200
        Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-09-11 12:20 +0200
          Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Andy Lutomirski <luto@amacapital.net> - 2015-09-11 18:40 +0200
            Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls Ingo Molnar <mingo@kernel.org> - 2015-09-14 15:40 +0200
              Re: [PATCH] x86: Wire up 32-bit direct socket calls "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com> - 2015-09-15 23:00 +0200

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