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

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Message-ID: <CALxhOni9LxYWGzKRdc6iNmr6d1CuXj_dLj4CBJeswT13zziEsQ@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Thu, 11 Oct 2018 14:05:33 +0530
From:   Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     linux-ia64@...r.kernel.org, Tony Luck <tony.luck@...el.com>,
        Fenghua Yu <fenghua.yu@...el.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <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, 11 Oct 2018 at 13:03, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> 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.

Sure.

>
>        Arnd