linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 2/3] mips: Add system call table generation support

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Date:   Fri, 14 Sep 2018 11:58:09 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
Cc:     Hauke Mehrtens <hauke@...ke-m.de>,
        Rafał Miłecki <zajec5@...il.com>,
        "open list:RALINK MIPS ARCHITECTURE" <linux-mips@...ux-mips.org>,
        Ralf Baechle <ralf@...ux-mips.org>,
        Paul Burton <paul.burton@...s.com>,
        James Hogan <jhogan@...nel.org>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        y2038 Mailman List <y2038@...ts.linaro.org>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@...il.com>,
        Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 2/3] mips: Add system call table generation support

On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 10:39 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> The system call tables are in different format in all
> architecture and it will be difficult to manually add or
> modify the system calls in the respective files. To make
> it easy by keeping a script and which'll generate the
> header file and syscall table file so this change will
> unify them across all architectures.
>
> The system call table generation script is added in
> syscalls directory which contain the script to generate
> both uapi header file system call table generation file
> and syscall_32/64.tbl file which'll be the input for the
> scripts.

I think it would be best to name the files
o32/n64/n32 instead of 32/64/n32

It would also be helpful to mention why the n32/n64
files cannot be combined into one nfile here.


> +364     32      pkey_alloc                      sys_pkey_alloc
> +365     32      pkey_free                       sys_pkey_free
> +366     32      statx                           sys_statx

You missed the additon of rseq and io_pgetevetns here.

       Arnd