Re: [PATCH 14/15] arch: add split IPC system calls where needed

From: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] arch: add split IPC system calls where needed
Date: Wed, 16 Jan 2019 11:09:12 +1100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <874la9zcnr.fsf@concordia.ellerman.id.au> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3eUzGDrJtV2ySpgHwjKHwZYr+1xHp6tChCt1gWi=mJ+g@mail.gmail.com>

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:01 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>>
>> On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:59 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au> wrote:
>> > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:
>> > >  arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     | 11 +++++++++++
>> > >  arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl | 11 +++++++++++
>> > >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl  | 12 ++++++++++++
>> >
>> > I have some changes I'd like to make to our syscall table that will
>> > clash with this.
>> >
>> > I'll try and send them today.
>>
>> Ok. Are those for 5.0 or 5.1? If they are intended for 5.0, it would be
>> nice for me to have a branch based on 5.0-rc1 that I can put
>> the other patches on top of.
>
> There is also another change that I considered:
>
> At the end of my series, we have a lot of entries like
>
> 245     32      clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime32
> 245     64      clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime
> 245     spu     clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime
>
> which could be folded into
>
> 245     32      clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime32
> 245     spu64 clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime
>
> if we just add another option to the ABI field. Any thoughts on
> that?

My series splits spu out into a separate field. So the above would be:

245     32	-	clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime32
245     64	spu	clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime

cheers