Messages in this thread | | | Subject | Re: [RFC][CFT] what's in signal.git queue | From | Benjamin Herrenschmidt <> | Date | Thu, 14 Feb 2013 20:52:22 +1100 |
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On Thu, 2013-02-14 at 01:25 +0000, Al Viro wrote: > Mostly it's a unification of signal-related syscalls, both native and compat > ones; by the end of it we shouldn't have syscalls left in normal > arch/*/kernel/signal*.c - there are some exceptions due to genuine weirdness > of arch-specific calling conventions, but that's rare. Another (somewhat > related) story in there is more compat_sys_something() getting switched to > COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE, giving us proper argument validation wrappers. Not > everything got switched, of course, but a lot of those guys has been.
FYI. I'm going to be off to some meeting & bringup work in the US for two weeks so expect little responsiveness from me on this until after I'm back (March 1st).
Cheers, Ben.
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