linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] ia64: replace the system call table entries from entry.S

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2JdFnAQcZ9YSOkEC_Od4QeLLP0RcWkte5MHC6VSXi0qQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 09:32:57 +0200
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
Cc:     linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        gregkh <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        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 v3 4/7] ia64: replace the system call table entries from entry.S

On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:25 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> In IA64, system call table entries are the part of entry.S file.
> We need to keep it in a separate file so that one of the patch in
> this patch series contains a system call table generation script
> which can separately handle system call table entries.
>
> Replaced the system call table from entry.S to syscall_table.S,
> this is a new file. This change will unify the implementation
> across all the architecture and to simplify the implementation for
> system call table generation using the script.
>
> Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
> ---
>  arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S         | 333 +-------------------------------------
>  arch/ia64/kernel/syscall_table.S | 334 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++

According to the discussion we had on the same patch for parisc,
I suppose we can skip this one as well now, and just remove the
entries when the generated table is added.

       Arnd