Re: Tomoyo compile failure on alpha: sys_get[p]pid undefined

[Christoph Hellwig]

On Fri, Sep 24, 2010 at 09:10:37AM +0300, Meelis Roos wrote:
> 2.6.36-rc5+git as of yesterday:
> 
>   LD      .tmp_vmlinux1
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xea98): undefined reference to `sys_getpid'
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xeab0): undefined reference to `sys_getpid'
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xeac0): undefined reference to `sys_getppid'
> security/built-in.o: In function `tomoyo_supervisor':(.text+0xeac4): undefined reference to `sys_getppid'
> 
> Seems alpha has different mechanisms for using these syscalls from 
> inside the kernel?

The real problem is that kernel code should never call system calls.
The correct fix is to get rid of this abuse.

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