From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1752865AbeCPAyb (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:54:31 -0400 Received: from mail-io0-f176.google.com ([209.85.223.176]:41525 "EHLO mail-io0-f176.google.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1752549AbeCPAy3 (ORCPT ); Thu, 15 Mar 2018 20:54:29 -0400 X-Google-Smtp-Source: AG47ELs6RK+Z+JyL9MFPzSYD1K0PFhnHUzaD/NSJIT2gL/boA12Pciaqs2K4yZOR2yNBNJz5k5n1WOiA3mXyG8H41Pw= MIME-Version: 1.0 In-Reply-To: References: <20180315190529.20943-1-linux@dominikbrodowski.net> From: Linus Torvalds Date: Thu, 15 Mar 2018 17:54:27 -0700 X-Google-Sender-Auth: GTpuzadTmD3Oms8Yyf30WwCnCxA Message-ID: Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 00/36] remove in-kernel syscall invocations (part 1) To: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Arnd Bergmann , Dominik Brodowski , Linux Kernel Mailing List , Al Viro , Ingo Molnar , Andrew Morton Content-Type: text/plain; charset="UTF-8" Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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 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 confusing and potentially causes subtle issues. Linus