From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754363AbbH0XQx (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:16:53 -0400 Received: from mail.efficios.com ([78.47.125.74]:49573 "EHLO mail.efficios.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751802AbbH0XQv (ORCPT ); Thu, 27 Aug 2015 19:16:51 -0400 Date: Thu, 27 Aug 2015 23:16:41 +0000 (UTC) From: Mathieu Desnoyers To: Russell King - ARM Linux Cc: Andrew Morton , linux-api , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Message-ID: <1862556294.30845.1440717401951.JavaMail.zimbra@efficios.com> In-Reply-To: <20150827225147.GG21084@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> References: <1440698215-8355-1-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <1440698215-8355-3-git-send-email-mathieu.desnoyers@efficios.com> <20150827225147.GG21084@n2100.arm.linux.org.uk> Subject: Re: [RFC PATCH 2/9] arm: allocate sys_membarrier system call number MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit X-Originating-IP: [78.47.125.74] X-Mailer: Zimbra 8.6.0_GA_1178 (ZimbraWebClient - FF40 (Linux)/8.6.0_GA_1178) Thread-Topic: allocate sys_membarrier system call number Thread-Index: ULqbLhXAJ0fgtSrycd9kgzNscEEe9Q== Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org ----- On Aug 27, 2015, at 6:51 PM, Russell King - ARM Linux linux@arm.linux.org.uk wrote: > On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 01:56:48PM -0400, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote: >> [ Untested on this architecture. To try it out: fetch linux-next/akpm, >> apply this patch, build/run a membarrier-enabled kernel, and do make >> kselftest. ] > > But note: the system call is not guaranteed to be allocated at that number > until I've merged the patch. I believe that there's other system calls > which are pending during the next merge window. Sure, no problem. I mainly want to make sure the system call works fine on each major arch before we reach the merge window. Let me know if you want me to send an updated version of this patch during or after the merge window. Thanks! Mathieu -- Mathieu Desnoyers EfficiOS Inc. http://www.efficios.com