Re: [PATCH v3 3/6] parisc: add system call table generation support

[Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>]

On Tue, 9 Oct 2018 at 11:05, Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> Hi Eugene, Arnd,
>
> On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 19:27, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> >
> > On Mon, Oct 8, 2018 at 3:02 PM Eugene Syromiatnikov <esyr@redhat.com> wrote:
> > > > On Mon, 8 Oct 2018 at 10:47, Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:
> > > > > diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> > >
> > > > > +84      common  lstat                           sys_newlstat                    compat_sys_newlstat
> > > > > +85      common  readlink                        sys_readlink
> > > > > +86      common  uselib                          sys_ni_syscall
> > >
> > > Why uselib is declared, contrary to all the skipped syscalls below,
> > > that were sys_ni_syscall previously? Only __NR_socketcall was explicitly
> > > undefined in arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h.
> >
> > Good catch, I didn't see that in my earlier review. I agree we want the
> > files to be identical to the version they replace, so the macros need to
> > be there for now.
> >
> > We may later decide to clean this up and remove all __NR_* that have
> > no entry point, but the conversion to the new table format needs to
> > otherwise be a nop.
> >
> > > > > +87      common  swapon                          sys_swapon
> > > > > +88      common  reboot                          sys_reboot
> > > > > +89      common  mmap2                           sys_mmap2
> > > > > +90      common  mmap                            sys_mmap
> > > > > +91      common  munmap                          sys_munmap
> > > > > +92      common  truncate                        sys_truncate                    compat_sys_truncate
> > > > > +93      common  ftruncate                       sys_ftruncate                   compat_sys_ftruncate
> > > > > +94      common  fchmod                          sys_fchmod
> > > > > +95      common  fchown                          sys_fchown
> > > > > +96      common  getpriority                     sys_getpriority
> > > > > +97      common  setpriority                     sys_setpriority
> > > > > +98      common  recv                            sys_recv
> > > > > +99      common  statfs                          sys_statfs                      compat_sys_statfs
> > > > > +100     common  fstatfs                         sys_fstatfs                     compat_sys_fstatfs
> > > > > +101     common  stat64                          sys_stat64
> > >
> > > It is probably worth adding a comment here that syscall 102 was
> > > socketcall, in order to make reason for this jump in syscall numeration
> > > self-evident.
> >
> > +1
> >
> > In general, I'd argue we want to keep all the nontrivial comments that
> > were present in either unistd.h or syscall_table.S.
>
> unistd_32.h, unistd_64.h, syscall_table_32.h, syscall_table_64.h and
> syscall_table_c32.h
> are generated files. unistd.h and syscall_table.S file include
> generated files. I had the
> support to keep the comments in the generated files.
>
> Eg:- from github
> https://github.com/frzkhn/system_call_table_generator/blob/5fe5fb5a3ad457b234e7600d8a4b61b2e3629acd/ia64/syscall.tbl#L105
>
> But I got to know the generated file don't carry any license info and
> comment section. That's
> why I removed it from all architecture.
>
> I'm ok to keep this support for all architecture. Please feel free to
> comment here.

My suggestion is to leave the non trivial comments only in the .tbl file.

Thanks
Firoz

>
> >
> > > > > +103     common  syslog                          sys_syslog
> > > > > +104     common  setitimer                       sys_setitimer                   compat_sys_setitimer
> > > > > +105     common  getitimer                       sys_getitimer                   compat_sys_getitimer
> > > > > +106     common  capget                          sys_capget
> > > > > +107     common  capset                          sys_capset
> > >
> > > > > +108     32      pread64                         parisc_pread64
> > > > > +108     64      pread64                         sys_pread64                     parisc_pread64
> > >
> > > It would be probably nice to have some syntax that would allow avoid
> > > this duplication (as compat handler on 64 bit and native on 32 bit are
> > > the same).
> >
> > I think I would prefer to have the compat table be generated with the '32'
> > abi rather than the '64' abi, so we end up with
> >
> > 108     32      pread64                         parisc_pread64
> >    parisc_pread64
> > 108     64      pread64                         sys_pread64
> >
> > I think this makes more sense, in particular on the other architectures
> > that have different macro names in some cases. When we do this,
> > the entries could get compressed to
> >
> > 108     32      pread64                         parisc_pread64
> > 108     64      pread64                         sys_pread64
> >
>
> Sure. I can do this thing. The above one may be applicable for parisc not other
> architecture. So the scripts might be slightly different. If we keep a
> standard way,
> the script will be unique. So the only difference will be Makefile and
> .tbl files for all
> architecture; I think that is our one of the goal.
>
> > > > > +348     common  pwritev2                        sys_pwritev2                    compat_sys_pwritev2
> > > > > +349     common  statx                           sys_statx
> > > > > +350    common  io_pgetevents                   sys_io_pgetevents               compat_sys_io_pgetevents
> > > > > \ No newline at end of file
> >
> > As others have commented several times, Firoz still needs to fix
> > the missing newline.
>
> Sure. I was wondering why the checkpatch script is not catching this one.
> Where ever I came across I fixed it.
>
> Thanks
> Firoz
>
> >
> > Firoz, please fix all the newlines before you repost any further
> > patches.
> >
> >       Arnd