Re: [RFC] dynamic syscalls revisited

[Michael Buesch]

Quoting Steven Rostedt <rostedt@xxxxxxxxxxx>:
> Done!
> 
> Updated on http://home.stny.rr.com/rostedt/dynamic as well as included
> in this email for ease.  
> 
> Now, I guess you can still get around this if the "Bad Vendor" were to
> write a GPL module with their added system calls, and have that module
> include hooks to their binary module.  So, until we can fix that, I
> guess Linus won't allow for this module to be included in the main line.
> 
> -- Steve
[SNIP]
> Index: arch/i386/kernel/entry.S
> ===================================================================
> --- arch/i386/kernel/entry.S (revision 15)
> +++ arch/i386/kernel/entry.S (working copy)
> @@ -906,5 +906,10 @@
>   .long sys_vperfctr_unlink
>   .long sys_vperfctr_iresume
>   .long sys_vperfctr_read
> +#ifdef CONFIG_DSYSCALL
> + .long sys_dsyscall  /* 295 */
> +#else
> + .long sys_ni_syscall  /* 295 */
> +#endif

Wouldn't it be better to do a
cond_syscall(sys_dsyscall)
in kernel/sys_ni.c

-- 
Regards Michael Buesch  [ http://www.tuxsoft.de.vu ]

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