On Tue, 8 Nov 2016, Josh Triplett wrote: > Some embedded systems can do without the prctl syscall, saving some space. > > This also avoids regular increases in tinyconfig size as people add more > non-optional functionality to prctl (observed via the 0-day kernel > infrastructure). > > The first patch moves prctl and all its helpers into a separate source file, > kernel/prctl.c, to allow making it optional via the Makefile without any > ifdefs. The second patch adds the Kconfig option to make prctl optional.
Excellent. For both patches: Acked-by: Nicolas Pitre <n...@linaro.org> > > Josh Triplett (2): > kernel: Move prctl and helpers from kernel/sys.c to new kernel/prctl.c > kernel: Support compiling out the prctl syscall > > init/Kconfig | 12 +- > kernel/Makefile | 1 +- > kernel/prctl.c | 684 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++- > kernel/sys.c | 672 +------------------------------------------------ > kernel/sys_ni.c | 1 +- > 5 files changed, 698 insertions(+), 672 deletions(-) > create mode 100644 kernel/prctl.c > > base-commit: e3a00f68e426df24a5fb98956a1bd1b23943aa1e > -- > git-series 0.8.11 >
