* Arnd Bergmann <[email protected]>:
> On Fri, Nov 16, 2018 at 1:55 PM Helge Deller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > On Fri, 16 Nov 2018 at 01:01, Helge Deller <[email protected]> wrote:
> > > >
> > > > On 14.11.2018 07:34, Firoz Khan wrote:
> > > > > The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily
> > > > > add/modify/delete system call table support by cha-
> > > > > nging entry in syscall.tbl file instead of manually
> > > > > changing many files. The other goal is to unify the
> > > > > system call table generation support implementation
> > > > > across all the architectures.
> > > > >
> > > > > The system call tables are in different format in
> > > > > all architecture. It will be difficult to manually
> > > > > add, modify or delete the system calls in the resp-
> > > > > ective files manually. To make it easy by keeping a
> > > > > script and which'll generate uapi header file and
> > > > > syscall table file.
> > > > >
> > > > > syscall.tbl contains the list of available system
> > > > > calls along with system call number and correspond-
> > > > > ing entry point. Add a new system call in this arch-
> > > > > itecture will be possible by adding new entry in the
> > > > > syscall.tbl file.
> > > > >
> > > > > Adding a new table entry consisting of:
> > > > > - System call number.
> > > > > - ABI.
> > > > > - System call name.
> > > > > - Entry point name.
> > > > >
> > > > > ....
> > > > > Firoz Khan (5):
> > > > > parisc: move __IGNORE* entries to non uapi header
> > > > > parisc: add __NR_syscalls along with __NR_Linux_syscalls
> > > > > parisc: add system call table generation support
> > > > > parisc: generate uapi header and system call table files
> > > > > parisc: syscalls: ignore nfsservctl for other architectures
> > > >
> > > > Firoz, you may add
> > > > Acked-by: Helge Deller <[email protected]>
> > > > to the whole parisc series.
> > >
> > > Sure, will do.
> > > I'm on a vacation right now. will send mid next week.
> >
> > That's ok, there is no urgency.
> >
> > Actually, I noticed that the generated files unistd_32.h
> > and unistd_64.h do have the same contents, since on parisc
> > we keep the syscall numbers the same for 32- and 64-bit.
> > With that in mind, we can simply generate on unistd.h
> > file for both variants.
>
> It depends on what we want to do in the future. When we add
> around 20 new system calls fro y2038, my plan was to
> only add them for 32-bit architectures, leaving holes on
> 64-bit ones.
Ok, I didn't thought of that.
> We can also assign the new numbers on parisc64 but they would have the
> same entry point as existing calls.
> If you prefer doing it like that, your patch seems fine for that,
> it's just slightly inconsistent with the other 64-bit architectures
> then.
I really prefer to stay in sync with other major architectures.
So, please drop my last patch.
Instead please apply only the next one, which drops the NR_Linux
offset value (which is 0 anyway).
Thanks,
Helge
diff --git a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index 6e31f58ad6b5..98dc953656af 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -2,7 +2,6 @@
#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_PARISC_UNISTD_H_
#define _UAPI_ASM_PARISC_UNISTD_H_
-#define __NR_Linux 0
#ifdef __LP64__
#include <asm/unistd_64.h>
#else
diff --git a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
index defa8878f6d2..4dcc5c9ae7f2 100644
--- a/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
+++ b/arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
@@ -12,22 +12,18 @@ systbl := $(srctree)/$(src)/syscalltbl.sh
quiet_cmd_syshdr = SYSHDR $@
cmd_syshdr = $(CONFIG_SHELL) '$(syshdr)' '$<' '$@' \
'$(syshdr_abis_$(basetarget))' \
- '$(syshdr_pfx_$(basetarget))' \
- '$(syshdr_offset_$(basetarget))'
+ '$(syshdr_pfx_$(basetarget))'
quiet_cmd_systbl = SYSTBL $@
cmd_systbl = $(CONFIG_SHELL) '$(systbl)' '$<' '$@' \
'$(systbl_abis_$(basetarget))' \
- '$(systbl_abi_$(basetarget))' \
- '$(systbl_offset_$(basetarget))'
+ '$(systbl_abi_$(basetarget))'
syshdr_abis_unistd_32 := common,32
-syshdr_offset_unistd_32 := __NR_Linux
$(uapi)/unistd_32.h: $(syscall) $(syshdr)
$(call if_changed,syshdr)
syshdr_abis_unistd_64 := common,64
-syshdr_offset_unistd_64 := __NR_Linux
$(uapi)/unistd_64.h: $(syscall) $(syshdr)
$(call if_changed,syshdr)
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