Re: [PATCH] compatibility syscall layer (lets try again)

[David S. Miller]

   From: "Martin Schwidefsky" <[e-mail]>
   Date: Mon, 9 Dec 2002 18:16:43 +0100
   
   >Architecture maintainers, can you comment on how easy/hard it is to do the
   >same thing on your architectures? I _assume_ it's trivial (akin to the
   >three-liner register state change in i386/kernel/signal.c).
   
   For s390/s390x this is actually quite tricky. The system call number is
   coded in the instruction, e.g. 0x0aa2 is svc 162 or sys_nanosleep. There
   is no register involved that contains the system call number I could
   simply change. I either have to change the instruction (no way) or I
   have to avoid going back to userspace in this case. This would require
   assembler magic in entry.S. Not nice.

Put the magic restart_block syscall at some fixed place in every
user process, change the PC to that.  Or, alternatively, put the
restart_block syscall insn on the stack and point the PC at that.

This isn't rocket science :-)