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From: Andrew Morton <akpm@linux-foundation.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Roman Penyaev <rpenyaev@suse.de>,
	Azat Khuzhin <azat@libevent.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@linux-foundation.org>,
	Linux FS-devel Mailing List <linux-fsdevel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 13/13] epoll: implement epoll_create2() syscall
Date: Wed, 22 May 2019 11:36:10 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190522113610.51d13f168d70f19a950540b4@linux-foundation.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3GWVNraxowtPmdZnF3moJ8=zkkD6F_1-885614HiVP3g@mail.gmail.com>

On Wed, 22 May 2019 13:14:41 +0200 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:

> > I thought the preferred approach was to wire up the architectures on
> > which the submitter has tested the syscall, then allow the arch
> > maintainers to enable the syscall independently?
> 
> I'm hoping to change that practice now, as it has not worked well
> in the past:
> 
> - half the architectures now use asm-generic/unistd.h, so they are
>   already wired up at the same time, regardless of testing
> - in the other half, not adding them at the same time actually
>   made it harder to test, as it was significantly harder to figure
>   out how to build a modified kernel for a given architecture
>   than to run the test case
> - Not having all architectures add a new call at the same time caused
>   the architectures to get out of sync when some got added and others
>   did not. Now that we use the same numbers across all architectures,
>   that would be even more confusing.
>
> My plan for the long run is to only have one file to which new
> system calls get added in the future.

Fair enough.  We're adding code to architectures without having tested
it on those architectures but we do that all the time anyway - I guess
there's not a lot of point in special-casing new syscalls.


  reply	other threads:[~2019-05-22 18:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 50+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-05-16  8:57 [PATCH v3 00/13] epoll: support pollable epoll from userspace Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:57 ` [PATCH v3 01/13] epoll: move private helpers from a header to the source Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:57 ` [PATCH v3 02/13] epoll: introduce user structures for polling from userspace Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 03/13] epoll: allocate user header and user events ring " Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 04/13] epoll: some sanity flags checks for epoll syscalls " Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 05/13] epoll: offload polling to a work in case of epfd polled " Roman Penyaev
2019-05-21  7:51   ` Eric Wong
2019-05-22 12:54     ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 06/13] epoll: introduce helpers for adding/removing events to uring Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31  9:55   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 11:24     ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 13:11       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31  9:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 11:15     ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 12:53       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 14:28         ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 16:53           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 12:56       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 14:21         ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 16:51           ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 18:58             ` Roman Penyaev
2019-06-03  9:09               ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-06-03 10:02                 ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 07/13] epoll: call ep_add_event_to_uring() from ep_poll_callback() Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31  9:56   ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 11:22     ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 13:05       ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 15:05         ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 08/13] epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_insert() Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 09/13] epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_remove() Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 10/13] epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_modify() Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 11/13] epoll: support polling from userspace for ep_poll() Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 12/13] epoll: support mapping for epfd when polled from userspace Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16  8:58 ` [PATCH v3 13/13] epoll: implement epoll_create2() syscall Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16 10:03   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-16 10:20     ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-16 10:57       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-22  2:33       ` Andrew Morton
2019-05-22  9:11         ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-22 11:14         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-05-22 18:36           ` Andrew Morton [this message]
2019-05-31  9:55 ` [PATCH v3 00/13] epoll: support pollable epoll from userspace Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 14:48 ` Jens Axboe
2019-05-31 16:02   ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 16:54     ` Jens Axboe
2019-05-31 19:45       ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 21:09         ` Jens Axboe
2019-06-05  6:17           ` Roman Penyaev
2019-05-31 16:33 ` Peter Zijlstra
2019-05-31 18:50   ` Roman Penyaev

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