Re: [patch 2/4] [RFC] syscalls, x86: Add __NR_kcmp syscall v4

[Cyrill Gorcunov]

On Tue, Jan 24, 2012 at 04:20:31PM +0900, KAMEZAWA Hiroyuki wrote:
...
> > > 
> > > That's not a reason to put it in arch/ ... that's possibly a reason to
> > > not map the system call on other architectures yet.
> > > 
> > 
> > Where it should live then? In kernel/ or mm/ ?
> > 
> 
> kernel/checkpoint_restart ?
> 
> gathering related changes to a directory may help developpers joins later....
> To me, this makes seeing git log easy ;)
>  

Such separate directory implies everything related to c/r should live there,
it also implies (I think) that code which is under CHECKPOINT_RESTORE should
be moved there as well, so I'm not sure, Kame ;) I guess mm/ will be a good
place since these are operations with memory pointers.

	Cyrill
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