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Date:      Tue, 7 Feb 2017 10:39:09 +0200
From:      Konstantin Belousov <kostikbel@gmail.com>
To:        John Baldwin <jhb@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Edward Tomasz Napierala <trasz@freebsd.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r313352 - in head/sys: compat/cloudabi compat/freebsd32 compat/linux vm
Message-ID:  <20170207083909.GX2092@kib.kiev.ua>
In-Reply-To: <2958370.34Dmljdf7f@ralph.baldwin.cx>
References:  <201702062057.v16KvCtI069664@repo.freebsd.org> <2958370.34Dmljdf7f@ralph.baldwin.cx>

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On Mon, Feb 06, 2017 at 03:03:11PM -0800, John Baldwin wrote:
> On Monday, February 06, 2017 08:57:12 PM Edward Tomasz Napierala wrote:
> > Author: trasz
> > Date: Mon Feb  6 20:57:12 2017
> > New Revision: 313352
> > URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/313352
> > 
> > Log:
> >   Add kern_vm_mmap2(), kern_vm_mprotect(), kern_vm_msync(), kern_vm_munlock(),
> >   kern_vm_munmap(), and kern_vm_madvise(), and use them in various compats
> >   instead of their sys_*() counterparts.
> >   
> >   Reviewed by:	ed, dchagin, kib
> >   MFC after:	2 weeks
> >   Sponsored by:	DARPA, AFRL
> >   Differential Revision:	https://reviews.freebsd.org/D9378
> 
> I know kib@ suggested kern_vm_<foo> instead of the vm_<foo> you had suggested,
> but just kern_<foo> would be more consistent.  That is what we have done with
> every other system call.  (e.g. there isn't kern_socket_bind, kern_socket_listen,
> etc., but just kern_bind() and kern_listen()).

Note that the kern_vm_* functions are not quite regular syscall helpers.
The big issue with them, which caused my suggestion, is that the
functions cannot be declared in sys/syscallsubr.h, because their
declarations depend on the vm/*.h namespace.



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