From: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org,
"James E . J . Bottomley" <jejb@parisc-linux.org>,
Helge Deller <deller@gmx.de>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
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Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>,
Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 2/5] parisc: add __NR_Linux_syscalls macro with __NR_syscalls
Date: Mon, 1 Oct 2018 19:36:44 +0530 [thread overview]
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Hi Arnd,
On Fri, 28 Sep 2018 at 17:44, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Sep 27, 2018 at 4:25 PM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:
> >
> > 1. Update __NR_Linux_syscalls in uapi/asm/unistd.h manually
> > by counting the no.of system calls. No need to update
> > __NR_Linux_syscalls until we either add a new system call
> > or delete an existing system call.
> >
> > 2. We can keep this feature it above mentioned script, that
> > will count the number of syscalls and keep it in a gener-
> > ated file. In this case we don't need to explicitly update
> > __NR_Linux_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.
> >
> > The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I moved
> > the __NR_Linux_syscalls macro from uapi/asm/unistd.h to asm/
> > unistd.h. The macro __NR_syscalls also added for making the
> > name convention same across all architecture. While __NR_sys-
> > calls isn't strictly part of the uapi, having it as part of
> > the generated header to simplifies the implementation. We also
> > need to enclose this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side
> > effects.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
> > ---
> > arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 6 +++++-
> > 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
> >
> > diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> > index bb52e12..255c62a 100644
> > --- a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> > +++ b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
> > @@ -366,7 +366,11 @@
> > #define __NR_statx (__NR_Linux + 349)
> > #define __NR_io_pgetevents (__NR_Linux + 350)
> >
> > -#define __NR_Linux_syscalls (__NR_io_pgetevents + 1)
> > +#ifdef __KERNEL__
> > +#define __NR_syscalls 351
> > +#endif
> > +
> > +#define __NR_Linux_syscalls __NR_syscalls
> >
>
> Hmm, now you have a __NR_Linux_syscalls macro that is defined in user
> space to a another macro that is not visible there. How about moving
> __NR_Linux_syscalls into arch/parisc/include/asm/unistd.h or
> replacing its users with __NR_syscalls instead?
Something went wrong when I created this patch series. Yes, this must be
reside in asm/unistd.h instead of uapi/asm/unistd.h. I would update this
change asap.
I would appreciate if some can perform boot test on actual platform.
Hopefully the above change doesn't make any problem.
Thanks
Firoz
>
> Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-10-01 20:44 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 22+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-09-27 14:24 [PATCH v2 0/5] System call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 1/5] parisc: move __IGNORE* entries to non uapi header Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 2/5] parisc: add __NR_Linux_syscalls macro with __NR_syscalls Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-28 12:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-28 12:14 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-01 14:06 ` Firoz Khan [this message]
2018-10-01 14:06 ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 3/5] parisc: add system call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` Firoz Khan
2018-10-01 11:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-01 11:36 ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-10-01 14:23 ` Firoz Khan
2018-10-01 14:23 ` Firoz Khan
2018-10-03 8:47 ` Firoz Khan
2018-10-03 8:47 ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 4/5] parisc: uapi header and system call table file generation Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` [PATCH v2 5/5] parisc: add __IGNORE* entries in asm/unistd.h Firoz Khan
2018-09-27 14:24 ` Firoz Khan
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