Messages in this thread | | | Date | Tue, 8 Nov 2016 19:30:12 -0500 (EST) | From | Nicolas Pitre <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 0/2] Support compiling out the prctl syscall |
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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 <nico@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 >
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