Re: [PATCH resend] Opteron support for mqueues-4.00 +bug fixes

From: Andi Kleen
Date: Thu Nov 20 2003 - 10:12:23 EST


jak@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx (Joe Korty) writes:

> __SYSCALL(__NR_vserver, sys_ni_syscall)
> +#define __NR_mq_open 274
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_mq_open, sys_mq_open)

The patch is buggy. You cannot add any unmapped holes into the x86-64
system call table, it adds an oopsable hole to the entry.

In general you cannot add any system calls without coordinating with
Linus and the architecture maintainers first. And the list is not sparse.

-Andi
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