linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry name

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Date:   Fri, 10 Aug 2018 19:31:55 -0700
From:   Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>
To:     Al Viro <viro@...IV.linux.org.uk>,
        Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org, ink@...assic.park.msu.ru,
        mattst88@...il.com, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
        arnd@...db.de, deepa.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry
 name

On 08/10/2018 05:04 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> Once upon a time it used to have a C part that printed a warning
> about unimplemented OSF syscalls.  That's what it's been doing
> all over the OSF syscall range, while the native Linux syscall
> range uses sys_ni_syscall().
> 
> With those warnings about unimplemented OSF syscalls gone (circa 2.4),
> alpha_ni_syscall() has shrunk to that little bit of asm and the
> only reason it hasn't been replaced with sys_ni_syscall() everywhere
> is that extra twist needed in case of syscall #0.
> 
> Let's keep it only for syscall #0 and replace the rest with sys_ni_syscall.
> And use sys_ni_syscall for "number out range" in ptraced-call case, as
> we'd been doing for normal codepath since 2.1.86...
> 
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>


> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ entSys:
>  	bne     $3, strace
>  	beq	$4, 1f
>  	ldq	$27, 0($5)
> -1:	jsr	$26, ($27), alpha_ni_syscall
> +1:	jsr	$26, ($27), sys_ni_syscall
>  	ldgp	$gp, 0($26)
>  	blt	$0, $syscall_error	/* the call failed */
>  	stq	$0, 0($sp)

Once upon a time I had a patch to make the hint
be sys_gettimeofday, as the most common syscall.
Dunno what happened to that.

But I must guess that an unimplemented syscall has got
to be the anti-hint of the ... long-ass-time-frame.


r~