[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, 32 deletions

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c
index 9c921d1c4084..0ee44be4ab73 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c
+++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c
@@ -956,38 +956,6 @@ long ppc32_fadvise64(int fd, u32 unused, u32 offset_high, u32 offset_low,
 			     advice);
 }
 
-long ppc32_timer_create(clockid_t clock,
-			struct compat_sigevent __user *ev32,
-			timer_t __user *timer_id)
-{
-	sigevent_t event;
-	timer_t t;
-	long err;
-	mm_segment_t savefs;
-
-	if (ev32 == NULL)
-		return sys_timer_create(clock, NULL, timer_id);
-
-	if (get_compat_sigevent(&event, ev32))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	if (!access_ok(VERIFY_WRITE, timer_id, sizeof(timer_t)))
-		return -EFAULT;
-
-	savefs = get_fs();
-	set_fs(KERNEL_DS);
-	/* The __user pointer casts are valid due to the set_fs() */
-	err = sys_timer_create(clock,
-		(sigevent_t __user *) &event,
-		(timer_t __user *) &t);
-	set_fs(savefs);
-
-	if (err == 0)
-		err = __put_user(t, timer_id);
-
-	return err;
-}
-
 asmlinkage long compat_sys_add_key(const char __user *_type,
 			      const char __user *_description,
 			      const void __user *_payload,