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From: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] arch: add split IPC system calls where needed
Date: Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:35:55 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAMuHMdVw1mBLGdn4hkiNVyoJ_oxMwi3d=_e7WL5ru+ALA4MKbw@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3eUzGDrJtV2ySpgHwjKHwZYr+1xHp6tChCt1gWi=mJ+g@mail.gmail.com>

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:19 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> 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?

So "spu64" would mean "spu + 64"?
That makes it more difficult to read, and to grep.
What about allowing multiple ABIs, separated by commas?
So that line would become:

    245     spu,64 clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

-- 
Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org

In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But
when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that.
                                -- Linus Torvalds

  reply	other threads:[~2019-01-15 16:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 47+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-01-10 16:24 [PATCH 00/15] arch: synchronize syscall tables in preparation for y2038 Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 01/15] ia64: add __NR_umount2 definition Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 02/15] ia64: add statx and io_pgetevents syscalls Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 03/15] ia64: assign syscall numbers for perf and seccomp Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 04/15] alpha: wire up io_pgetevents system call Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 05/15] alpha: update syscall macro definitions Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 06/15] ARM: add migrate_pages() system call Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:32   ` Will Deacon
2019-01-10 17:11     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 07/15] ARM: add kexec_file_load system call number Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:39   ` Will Deacon
2019-01-10 17:14     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 08/15] m68k: assign syscall number for seccomp Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 09/15] sh: remove duplicate unistd_32.h file Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 10/15] sh: add statx system call Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 11/15] mips: fix n32 compat_ipc_parse_version Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 19:39   ` Paul Burton
2019-01-10 23:04     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-11 19:25   ` Paul Burton
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 12/15] sparc64: fix sparc_ipc type conversion Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 13/15] ipc: rename old-style shmctl/semctl/msgctl syscalls Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 14/15] arch: add split IPC system calls where needed Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 20:32   ` Heiko Carstens
2019-01-11 17:33     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-14  3:40   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-14  3:59   ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-14  9:58     ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-15 15:01     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-15 15:18       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-15 16:35         ` Geert Uytterhoeven [this message]
2019-01-15 21:24           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-16  0:09         ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-16  0:10       ` Michael Ellerman
2019-01-10 16:24 ` [PATCH 15/15] arch: add pkey and rseq syscall numbers everywhere Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 20:36   ` Heiko Carstens
2019-01-11 17:30     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-14  8:31       ` Heiko Carstens
2019-01-15 11:52   ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-01-15 14:47     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 16:59 ` [PATCH 00/15] arch: synchronize syscall tables in preparation for y2038 Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-01-10 17:06   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 18:11     ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-01-10 22:43       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-11  8:07         ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-01-10 18:10 ` Joseph Myers
2019-01-10 22:42   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-01-10 23:14     ` Michael Cree

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