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From: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
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Date: Sat, 9 Mar 2002 22:14:07 +1100 (EST)
To: Juan Quintela <quintela@mandrakesoft.com>
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        Linus Torvalds <torvalds@transmeta.com>,
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Subject: Re: [bkpatch] do_mmap cleanup
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Juan Quintela writes:

> Please, don't do that, export another function that does exactly that.
> sys_munmap is declared as asmlinkage, and some architectures (at
> least ppc used to have) need especial code to be able to call
> asmlinkage functions from inside the kernel.

Huh?  asmlinkage doesn't do anything on PPC, and never has.  It only
makes any difference on i386 and ia64 - see include/linux/linkage.h.

Paul.
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