Re: set_thread_area.2: csky architecture undocumented

["Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>]

Hi Alex,

On 11/23/20 10:31 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
> 
> SYNOPSIS
>        #include <linux/unistd.h>
> 
>        #if defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__
>        # include <asm/ldt.h>
> 
>        int get_thread_area(struct user_desc *u_info);
>        int set_thread_area(struct user_desc *u_info);
> 
>        #elif defined __m68k__
> 
>        int get_thread_area(void);
>        int set_thread_area(unsigned long tp);
> 
>        #elif defined __mips__
> 
>        int set_thread_area(unsigned long addr);
> 
>        #endif
> 
>        Note: There are no glibc wrappers for these system  calls;  see
>        NOTES.
> 
> 
> $ grep -rn 'SYSCALL_DEFINE.*et_thread_area'
> arch/csky/kernel/syscall.c:6:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, unsigned long, addr)
> arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:86:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, unsigned long, addr)
> arch/x86/kernel/tls.c:191:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, u_info)
> arch/x86/kernel/tls.c:243:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(get_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, u_info)
> arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:277:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, user_desc)
> arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:325:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(get_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, user_desc)
> 
> 
> See kernel commit 4859bfca11c7d63d55175bcd85a75d6cee4b7184
> 
> 
> I'd change
> -      #elif defined __mips__
> +      #elif defined(__mips__ || __csky__)
> 
> and then change the rest of the text to add csky when appropriate.
> Am I correct?

AFAICT, you are correct. I think the reason that csky is missing is
that the architecture was added after this manual pages was added.

Thanks,

Michael


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