[uClinux-dev] __NR_restart_syscall

Greg Ungerer gerg at snapgear.com
Tue Aug 28 02:27:36 EDT 2007


Hi Geert,

Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> I noticed m68knommu has in include/asm-m68knommu/unistd.h:
> 
>     #define __NR_restart_syscall      0
> 
> and in arch/m68knommu/kernel/signal.c:
> 
>     regs->d0 = __NR_restart_syscall;
> 
> while m68k doesn't have __NR_restart_syscall and handles syscall restarts
> differently.
> 
> Furthermore, both arch/m68knommu/kernel/syscalltable.S and
> arch/m68k/kernel/entry.S have for entry 0:
> 
>     .long sys_ni_syscall    /* 0  -  old "setup()" system call*/
> 
> i.e. on m68knommu system call restarting doesn't do anything.

Yes, sure does look wrong. The handling looks like it should
work the same as for m68k. I'll fix...

Thanks
Greg



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