From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
Cc: Linux-sh list <linux-sh@vger.kernel.org>,
Yoshinori Sato <ysato@users.sourceforge.jp>,
Rich Felker <dalias@libc.org>,
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Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@nexb.com>,
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Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 1/3] sh: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls
Date: Mon, 19 Nov 2018 17:50:50 +0100 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a3fFznLDZTs0eLa_dJCKdENC96w1MoC1pNM6gYwcb=Cow@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1542169930-24118-2-git-send-email-firoz.khan@linaro.org>
On Wed, Nov 14, 2018 at 5:32 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:
>
> NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist
> in sh architecture. We have to change the value of NR-
> _syscalls, if we add or delete a system call.
>
> One of the patch in this patch series has a script which
> will generate a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file.
> The syscall.tbl file contains the total number of system
> calls information. So we have two option to update NR_sy-
> scalls value.
>
> 1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by count-
> ing the no.of system calls. No need to update NR_sys-
> calls until we either add a new system call or delete
> 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 generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
> citly update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.
>
> The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
> added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd_32/64.h
> along with NR_syscalls which is moved 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>
Looks correct to me, but since there are only three references to
'NR_syscalls' in arch/sh, I wonder if we should just replace it with
__NR_syscalls in the same patch.
Arnd
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2018-11-19 17:37 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2018-11-14 4:32 [PATCH v3 0/3] sh: system call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-11-14 4:32 ` [PATCH v3 1/3] sh: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls Firoz Khan
2018-11-19 16:50 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-11-20 7:05 ` Firoz Khan
2018-11-14 4:32 ` [PATCH v3 2/3] sh: add system call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-11-14 4:32 ` [PATCH v3 3/3] sh: generate uapi header and syscall table header files Firoz Khan
2018-11-19 5:08 ` [PATCH v3 0/3] sh: system call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-12-10 20:30 ` Rich Felker
2018-11-19 5:25 ` Rob Landley
2018-11-19 8:08 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2018-11-19 8:57 ` Rob Landley
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