From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S932181AbVKOAKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:10:10 -0500 Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org id S932203AbVKOAKK (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:10:10 -0500 Received: from tayrelbas01.tay.hp.com ([161.114.80.244]:19632 "EHLO tayrelbas01.tay.hp.com") by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S932181AbVKOAKI (ORCPT ); Mon, 14 Nov 2005 19:10:08 -0500 Date: Mon, 14 Nov 2005 16:09:48 -0800 From: Stephane Eranian To: Paul Mackerras Cc: Arnd Bergmann , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, ak@muc.de, benh@kernel.crashing.org, stephane.eranian@hp.com, tony.luck@intel.com Subject: Re: + perfmon2-reserve-system-calls.patch added to -mm tree Message-ID: <20051115000948.GC23839@frankl.hpl.hp.com> Reply-To: eranian@hpl.hp.com References: <200511142329.jAENTfmS004600@shell0.pdx.osdl.net> <200511150050.27556.arnd@arndb.de> <17273.9731.963322.721596@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: <17273.9731.963322.721596@cargo.ozlabs.ibm.com> User-Agent: Mutt/1.4.1i Organisation: HP Labs Palo Alto Address: HP Labs, 1U-17, 1501 Page Mill road, Palo Alto, CA 94304, USA. E-mail: eranian@hpl.hp.com Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org 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