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

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

Hi Geert,

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.

I posted similar script for 10 different architectures. I got few good review
from the maintainers and it will be applicable for all the
architectures including
m68k. There are few area which I identified need to improve. This will take
couple of days.

But it will be very helpful if you can perform the boot test on the
actual platform
and share the result.

FYI, Keeping a single script is always our plan for long run. But I
have to keep a
separate versions for the start so each architecture can be handled  in one
series. Which would make easier to merge in the initial version. we
could probably
add it to scripts/*.sh first, but that requires more coordination between the
architectures.

- Firoz

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