On Thu, Jun 07, 2007 at 01:10:23PM -0700, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> HOWEVER.
>
> I think we could introduce a *single* new system call, which does
> basically a "run the specified system call with the following flags".
As long as we are considering indirecting system calls, how about
reviving your proposal to run a system call in a different address
space:
http://www.ussg.iu.edu/hypermail/linux/kernel/0212.3/0502.html
UML could make good use of the ability to remotely manipulate address
spaces. I never liked any of the proposed interfaces very much,
including mm_indirect. However, if my tastebuds are defective, and
indirecting system calls is the way to solve a family of problems,
then we should look at fitting in mm_indirect.
> It has the disadvantage that it would need some per-architecture setup to
> load the actual real arguments from memory: the system call would probably
> look something like
>
> syscall_indirect(unsigned long flags, sigset_t *,
> int syscall, unsigned long args[6]);
mm_indirect would need a file descriptor to the other address space,
which we would presumably get from a new get_mm() system call.
Jeff
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