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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
Cc: Benjamin LaHaise <bcrl@redhat.com>,
	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
	Linux Kernel <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	linux-mm@kvack.org
Subject: Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup
Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:14:07 +1100 (EST)	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <15497.61055.615126.619184@argo.ozlabs.ibm.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <m2y9h2mqph.fsf@trasno.mitica>

Juan Quintela writes:

> Please, don't do that, export another function that does exactly that.
> sys_munmap is declared as asmlinkage, and some architectures (at
> least ppc used to have) need especial code to be able to call
> asmlinkage functions from inside the kernel.

Huh?  asmlinkage doesn't do anything on PPC, and never has.  It only
makes any difference on i386 and ia64 - see include/linux/linkage.h.

Paul.
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  reply	other threads:[~2002-03-09 11:14 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 7+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2002-03-08 23:53 Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-09  2:15 ` Juan Quintela
2002-03-09 11:14   ` Paul Mackerras [this message]
2002-03-09 21:17     ` Juan Quintela
2002-03-11 12:08 ` Pavel Machek
2002-03-11 19:18   ` Benjamin LaHaise
2002-03-11 20:39   ` Tom Rini

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