Messages in this thread | | | Date | Sat, 12 Mar 2005 21:55:49 -0800 | From | Andrew Morton <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH][2.6.11-mm3] perfctr ia32 syscalls on x86-64 fix |
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Mikael Pettersson <mikpe@csd.uu.se> wrote: > > The ia32 perfctr syscalls were moved due to addition of ioprio > syscalls, but the ia32 emulation code in x86-64 wasn't updated.
Ho hum. The perfctr syscall API has changed so many times that whenever someone adds a syscall I have rejects to fix up in probably ten different patches.
It would be nice to start folding these patches together a bit to reduce such problems, but that's rather non-trivial because there is no way to simply join these patches together which maintains a sensible sequencing.
If we're going to do anything then it's either a major refactoring, or simply wham the entire feature into a single diff. That diff could then be split into four patches: core, ppc, x86 and x86_64. We would lose the layering between ye olde perfctr, the inheritance implementation, the syfs API, etc. I could live with that.
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