[PATCH] RFC: clean up mmap decoding

[Dmitry V. Levin]

On Mon, Feb 18, 2013 at 09:27:19PM +0100, Denys Vlasenko wrote:
> mmap handling is a mess. We try to merge too many similar,
> but different ways of decoding it. For example, sys_old_mmap
> is "params in memory" API... except SH[64], where it is
> "params in regs", i.e. what *sys_mmap* ("new mmap")
> does on other arches!
> 
> It's much simpler when mmap handlers are cleanly split
> by API (whether params are in regs or in memory,
> and whether offset is byte or page).
> 
> Then we just insert correct function pointers into
> arch syscall tables.
> 
> It turns out there are only three common mmap APIs over
> all architectures which exist in Linux kernel,
> and two outliers (for SH and S390).
> 
> A number of mmap decoders were plain wrong in arch tables.
> For example, BFIN has no old_mmap. It returns ENOSYS.
> I checked kernel sources.
> 
> There was dead code for x86_64 for old_mmap:
> x86_64 has no old_mmap.
> 
> I will polish this change a bit more, but it is largely complete.
> However, it is not that simple. Dmitry, can you look over this patch?

From a glance it looks good, but I haven't got enough time this week to
have a good look at the patch.  As you've already merged it, I suppose it
won't harm if I do it a bit later.


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