Re: [PATCH] syscalls: add __NR_kcmp syscall to generic unistd.h

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Monday 24 September 2012, Mark Salter wrote:
> 
> Commit d97b46a64 added a new syscall (__NR_kcmp) to support checkpoint
> restore. It is currently x86-only, but that restriction will be removed
> in a subsequent patch. Unfortunately, the kernel checksyscalls script
> had a bug which suppressed any warning to other architectures that the
> kcmp syscall was not implemented. A patch to checksyscalls is being
> tested in linux-next and other architectures are seeing warnings about
> kcmp being unimplemented.
> 
> This patch adds __NR_kcmp to <asm-generic/unistd.h> so that kcmp is
> wired in for architectures using the generic syscall list.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Mark Salter <msalter@xxxxxxxxxx>

Acked-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx>

If you have other patches lined up, can you add this one as well?
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