Re: linux-2.5.7

[Alexander Viro]

On Sun, 31 Mar 2002, Keith Owens wrote:

> On Sun, 31 Mar 2002 09:48:38 +1000 (EST), 
> Neil Brown <[e-mail]> wrote:
> >I cannot see the weak aliases being a real fix either.
> >If you compile with NFSD as a module, and with CONFIG_KMOD, then the
> >nfssvc_ctl systemcall is suppose to auto-load nfsd.o.  How can this be
> >achieved with weak aliases?
> 
> System calls cannot be in modules.  Linus forbids it (that way lies
> "extend and embrace") and at least two architectures (ia64, ppc64)
> break when a syscall is in a module.

Yup.  The logics being:

if we have neither CONFIG_NFSD nor CONFIG_NFSD_MODULE
	sys_nfsservctl() is alias for sys_ni_syscall()
else
	sys_nfsservctl() is defined in fs/nfsct.c and does do_kern_mount()
	with type "nfsd", which triggers autoload if nfsd is modular.  Whether
	nfsd is modular or comipled-in, syscall itself is in kernel (and
	is nothing but a wrapper for write()/read()).