[PATCH] common compat_sys_timer_create

The comment in compat.c is wrong, every architecture provides a
get_compat_sigevent() for the IPC compat code already.

This basically moves the x86_64 version to common code and removes all the
others.

Signed-off-by: Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>
Acked-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Cc: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@de.ibm.com>
Cc: "David S. Miller" <davem@davemloft.net>
Acked-by: Andi Kleen <ak@muc.de>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <akpm@osdl.org>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <torvalds@osdl.org>

1 files changed, 0 insertions, 36 deletions

diff --git a/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c b/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c
index 7f6239ed2521..de342ee3116b 100644
--- a/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c
+++ b/arch/sparc64/kernel/sys_sparc32.c
@@ -1120,39 +1120,3 @@ long sys32_lookup_dcookie(unsigned long cookie_high,
 	return sys_lookup_dcookie((cookie_high << 32) | cookie_low,
 				  buf, len);
 }
-
-extern asmlinkage long
-sys_timer_create(clockid_t which_clock,
-		 struct sigevent __user *timer_event_spec,
-		 timer_t __user *created_timer_id);
-
-long
-sys32_timer_create(u32 clock, struct compat_sigevent __user *se32,
-		   timer_t __user *timer_id)
-{
-	struct sigevent se;
-	mm_segment_t oldfs;
-	timer_t t;
-	long err;
-
-	if (se32 == NULL)
-		return sys_timer_create(clock, NULL, timer_id);
-
-	if (get_compat_sigevent(&se, se32))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE,timer_id,sizeof(timer_t)))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	oldfs = get_fs();
-	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-	err = sys_timer_create(clock,
-			       (struct sigevent __user *) &se,
-			       (timer_t __user *) &t);
-	set_fs(oldfs);
-
-	if (!err)
-		err = __put_user (t, timer_id);
-
-	return err;
-}