On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:03:11PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, February 06, 2017 08:57:12 PM Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Mon Feb  6 20:57:12 2017
> > New Revision: 313352
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313352
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add kern_vm_mmap2(), kern_vm_mprotect(), kern_vm_msync(), 
> > kern_vm_munlock(),
> >   kern_vm_munmap(), and kern_vm_madvise(), and use them in various compats
> >   instead of their sys_*() counterparts.
> >   
> >   Reviewed by:      ed, dchagin, kib
> >   MFC after:        2 weeks
> >   Sponsored by:     DARPA, AFRL
> >   Differential Revision:    https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9378
> 
> I know kib@ suggested kern_vm_<foo> instead of the vm_<foo> you had suggested,
> but just kern_<foo> would be more consistent.  That is what we have done with
> every other system call.  (e.g. there isn't kern_socket_bind, 
> kern_socket_listen,
> etc., but just kern_bind() and kern_listen()).

Note that the kern_vm_* functions are not quite regular syscall helpers.
The big issue with them, which caused my suggestion, is that the
functions cannot be declared in sys/syscallsubr.h, because their
declarations depend on the vm/*.h namespace.
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