-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 H. Peter Anvin wrote: > No. > > I already said I'm not looking at changing the calling convention for > existing syscalls.
I did not suggest or ask for that at all. I was asking you to consider the real implementation details for a new syscall mechanism. We do not want to abandon the use of syscall/sysenter and go back to int (on x86/x86-64). This means that you have to come up with a mechanism which hooks into the current syscall/sysenter path while preserving full backward compatibility. Now it's your turn. How do you do this without additional costs? > Hardly so, as evidenced by the fact that we have successfully done so > for 15 years already; a number of Linux architectures require this > information for the existing system calls. Nothing at this scale is there in the moment, as far as I can see. And nothing so critical for getting right. Talk is cheap. You still haven't shown one bit if design how you want to achieve your grand goal. The time for hand-waiving is over. Do some work or step out of the way. Nothing you have said so far in the least convinces me and your arguments like "sys_indirect adds parameters" are not really contested. Yes, that's what sys_indirect does. So what? It does this with almost no cost which outweighs the ugliness factor in my book. - -- ➧ Ulrich Drepper ➧ Red Hat, Inc. ➧ 444 Castro St ➧ Mountain View, CA ❖ -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.4.7 (GNU/Linux) Comment: Using GnuPG with Fedora - http://enigmail.mozdev.org iD8DBQFHS2gQ2ijCOnn/RHQRAlN5AKCWZQL97sROWBv33//Uj/MN+CNi3gCdFgCU uLVEOfclERpakp1kdYzy2oI= =stVB -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- - To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-kernel" in the body of a message to [EMAIL PROTECTED] More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html Please read the FAQ at http://www.tux.org/lkml/
