linux-kernel - Re: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL

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Date:   Sun, 25 Mar 2018 20:15:32 -1000
From:   Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>
Cc:     Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>,
        Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        linux-mips <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        ppc-dev <linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390 <linux-s390@...r.kernel.org>,
        "David S . Miller" <davem@...emloft.net>,
        sparclinux@...r.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Jiri Slaby <jslaby@...e.com>,
        "the arch/x86 maintainers" <x86@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [RFC] new SYSCALL_DEFINE/COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINE wrappers

On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk> wrote:
>
> Linus, Dominik - how do you plan dealing with that fun?

Secretly, I was hoping to kill x32, because it's not being used afaik.

More realistically, I was thinking we'd just use a separate table or
system calls, and generate different versions.

In fact, you can see exactly that in my WIP branch, except it uses the
wrong name.

So see the "WIP-syscall" branch in my normal git kernel repo, and in
particular the patch to <linux/syscalls.h>, which generates
"sys_x64##name" and "sys_i86##name()" inline functions that do that
mapping correcty for native x86-64, and for the (misnamed) x32 cases.

So there are three different cases:

 - native: sys_x64_name() generated by SYSCALL_DEFINEx()

 - compat -bit: compat_sys_i86_name() generated by COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx()

 - x32: sys_i86_name() generated by SYSCALL_DEFINEx().

and then I actually changed the names in the tables (ie in
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl etc).

HOWEVER.

I didn't actually test any of the compat or x32 ones, and the way I
did it there also was no type-checking or other automated catching of
getting it wrong. So it's almost certainly completely buggy, but the
_intent_ is there and there is a remote possibility that it might even
work.

              Linus