Re: [PATCH 2/4] m68k: Replace NR_syscalls macro from asm/unistd.h

[Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>]

On 18 September 2018 at 15:34, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
> Hi Firoz,
>
> On Tue, Sep 18, 2018 at 9:16 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:
>> On 9 August 2018 at 13:00, Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org> wrote:
>> > One first comment below...
>> >
>> > On Thu, Aug 9, 2018 at 7:16 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> wrote:
>> >> NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist in m68k
>> >> architecture. This macro is currently the part of asm/unistd.h file.
>> >> We have to change the value of NR_syscalls, if we add or delete a
>> >> system call.
>> >>
>> >> One of 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 number of system call information. So we have two
>> >> option to update NR_syscalls value.
>> >>
>> >> 1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by counting the
>> >>    no.of system calls. No need to update NR_syscalls untill
>> >>    we either add a new system call or delete an existing system
>> >>    call.
>> >>
>> >> 2. We can keep this feature it above mentioned script, that'll
>> >>    count the number of syscalls and keep it in a generated file.
>> >>    In this case we don't need to explicitly update NR_syscalls
>> >>    in asm/unistd.h file.
>> >>
>> >> The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I moved the
>> >> NR_syscalls macro from asm/unistd.h to uapi/asm/unistd.h. The macro
>> >> name also changed form NR_syscalls to __NR_syscalls for making the
>> >> name convention same across all architecture. While __NR_syscalls
>> >> isn't strictly part of the uapi, having it as part of the generated
>> >> header to simplifies the implementation.
>> >
>> > It can indeed not be part of the UAPI, as UAPI definitions can never change,
>> > while new syscalls will be added in the future, increasing the number ;-)
>>
>> Thanks for your reply :)
>> Sorry for the delayed response :(
>>
>> I would like to keep __NR_syscalls macro to uapi header in order to simplify
>> the system call table generation script. Otherwise the __NR_syscalls
>> macro need to update manually. That become a problem.
>>
>> Please check the below implementation in uapi file make sense?
>> It is an easy workaround to leave __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h
>> and enclose it in #ifdef __KERNEL__
>>
>> ...
>> ...
>> #define __NR_pwritev2  378
>> #define __NR_statx      379
>>
>> #ifdef __KERNEL__
>> #define __NR_syscalls   380
>> #endif
>> ...
>> ...
>
> #ifdef __KERNEL__ sounds fine to me.

Thanks for the reply. I'll post v2 patches ASAP with this changes.

- Firoz
>
> Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
>
>                         Geert
>
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