linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] System call table generation support

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Date:   Mon, 24 Sep 2018 11:08:11 +1000
From:   Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        linux-m68k@...ts.linux-m68k.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     y2038@...ts.linaro.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, arnd@...db.de, deepa.kernel@...il.com,
        marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] System call table generation support

Hi Firoz,

On 21/09/18 01:06, Firoz Khan wrote:
> The purpose of this patch series is:
> 1. We can easily add/modify/delete system call by changing entry
> in syscall.tbl file. No need to manually edit many files.
> 
> 2. It is easy to unify the system call implementation across all
> the architectures.
> 
> 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 manually. 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.
> 
> syscall.tbl contains the list of available system calls along with
> system call number and corresponding entry point. Add a new system
> call in this architecture 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.
>          - Compat entry name, if required.
> 
> ARM, s390 and x86 architecuture does exist the similar support. I
> leverage their implementation to come up with a generic solution.
> 
> I have done the same support for work for alpha, microblaze, sparc,
> mips, parisc, powerpc, sh, sparc, and xtensa. But I started sending
> the patch for one architecuture for review. Below mentioned git
> repository contains more details.
> Git repo:- https://github.com/frzkhn/system_call_table_generator/
> 
> Added an extra patch to keep __IGNORE* entries in asm/unistd.h.
> 
> Finally, this is the ground work for solving the Y2038 issue. We
> need to add/change two dozen of system calls to solve Y2038 issue.
> So this patch series will help to easily modify from existing
> system call to Y2038 compatible system calls.
>
> Firoz Khan (5):
>    m68k: Rename system call table file name
>    m68k: Replace NR_syscalls macro from asm/unistd.h
>    m68k: Added system call table generation support
>    m68k: uapi header and system call table file generation
>    m68k: added __IGNORE* entries in asm/unistd.h

Built and tested on a couple of m68k/ColdFire targets,
m520x (no MMU) and m5475 (with MMU). Load and run on real hardware,
no problems found. So for m68knommu/ColdFire:

Tested-by: Greg Ungerer <gerg@...ux-m68k.org>

Regards
Greg


>   arch/m68k/Makefile                      |   3 +
>   arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild            |   1 +
>   arch/m68k/include/asm/unistd.h          |  10 +-
>   arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild       |   1 +
>   arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h     | 385 +-----------------------------
>   arch/m68k/kernel/Makefile               |   2 +-
>   arch/m68k/kernel/syscall_table.S        |  14 ++
>   arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/Makefile      |  37 +++
>   arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl   | 369 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>   arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh |  39 ++++
>   arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh |  28 +++
>   arch/m68k/kernel/syscalltable.S         | 403 --------------------------------
>   12 files changed, 502 insertions(+), 790 deletions(-)
>   create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscall_table.S
>   create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
>   create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
>   create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh
>   create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh
>   delete mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalltable.S
>