On Fri Sep 16, 2022 at 3:32 PM AEST, Rohan McLure wrote:
> The table of syscall handlers and registered compatibility syscall
> handlers has in past been produced using assembly, with function
> references resolved at link time. This moves link-time errors to
> compile-time, by rewriting systbl.S in C, and including the
> linux/syscalls.h, linux/compat.h and asm/syscalls.h headers for
> prototypes.
>
> Reported-by: Arnd Bergmann
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure
> Reported-by: Nicholas Piggin
> ---
> V1 -> V2: New patch.
> V4 -> V5: For this patch only, represent handler function pointers as
> unsigned long. Remove reference to syscall wrappers. Use asm/syscalls.h
> which implies asm/syscall.h
Thanks, I think this is the right way to split the patches.
I'm not sure if I reported this issue, but I really like the patch.
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin
> ---
> arch/powerpc/kernel/{systbl.S => systbl.c} | 28
> 1 file changed, 11 insertions(+), 17 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.c
> similarity index 61%
> rename from arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
> rename to arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.c
> index 6c1db3b6de2d..ce52bd2ec292 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.c
> @@ -10,32 +10,26 @@
> * PPC64 updates by Dave Engebretsen (engeb...@us.ibm.com)
> */
>
> -#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
> +#include
>
> -.section .rodata,"a"
> +#define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, entry, compat) __SYSCALL(nr, entry)
> +#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry) [nr] = (unsigned long) ,
>
> -#ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> - .p2align3
> -#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry) .8byte entry
> -#else
> - .p2align2
> -#define __SYSCALL(nr, entry) .long entry
> -#endif
> -
> -#define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, native, compat)__SYSCALL(nr, native)
> -.globl sys_call_table
> -sys_call_table:
> +const unsigned long sys_call_table[] = {
> #ifdef CONFIG_PPC64
> #include
> #else
> #include
> #endif
> +};
>
> #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
> #undef __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT
> #define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, native, compat)__SYSCALL(nr, compat)
> -.globl compat_sys_call_table
> -compat_sys_call_table:
> -#define compat_sys_sigsuspendsys_sigsuspend
> +const unsigned long compat_sys_call_table[] = {
> #include
> -#endif
> +};
> +#endif /* CONFIG_COMPAT */
> --
> 2.34.1
