Re: + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree

From: Stephane Eranian
Date: Mon Nov 14 2005 - 19:10:00 EST


Paul,

On Tue, Nov 15, 2005 at 11:04:19AM +1100, Paul Mackerras wrote:
> Arnd Bergmann writes:
>
> > Hmm, I had sent an earlier patch to paulus that reserves 278 and
> > 279 for spu_run and spu_create and that apparently got dropped.
>
> Hmmm, sorry, I thought I had put that in, but evidently not.
>
> > Could I have those two numbers or is there already an established
> > user based for the perfmon2 numbers that would take preference?
>
> I don't believe there is any user base of the perfmon2 numbers.
> Stephane, could you respin using 280 - 291 for PowerPC?
>
Yes, at this point I am just reserving the syscall numbers, nothing is
hardcoded into any application, so we can certainly change it. I'll do
that and resubmit the powerpc portion. From Andrew, I understand I have
to do this in arch/powerpc and also in arch/ppc.

--
-Stephane
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