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

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Date:   Mon, 5 Nov 2018 13:31:20 -0800
From:   Matt Turner <mattst88@...il.com>
To:     firoz.khan@...aro.org
Cc:     linux-alpha <linux-alpha@...r.kernel.org>,
        Richard Henderson <rth@...ddle.net>,
        Ivan Kokshaysky <ink@...assic.park.msu.ru>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Greg KH <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>,
        y2038@...ts.linaro.org, LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        deepa.kernel@...il.com, marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 0/5] alpha: system call table generation support

On Thu, Nov 1, 2018 at 6:44 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org> wrote:
>
> The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily
> add/modify/delete system call table support by cha-
> nging entry in syscall.tbl file instead of manually
> changing many files. The other goal is to unify the
> system call table generation support implementation
> across all the architectures.
>
> The system call tables are in different format in
> all architecture. It will be difficult to manually
> add, modify or delete the system calls in the resp-
> ective files manually. To make it easy by keeping a
> script and which'll generate uapi header file and
> syscall table file.
>
> syscall.tbl contains the list of available system
> calls along with system call number and correspond-
> ing entry point. Add a new system call in this arch-
> itecture will be possible by adding new entry in the
> syscall.tbl file.

Sounds like a worthy goal.

I tried applying the patches and it seems they haven't been rebased
since v4.18. My rebases are in
https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/mattst88/alpha.git/log/?h=for-linus

They seem to work for me, FWIW.

Is your plan to have the patches go through the separate architecture
trees, or go in together? I think I'd at least prefer for another
architecture to take the plunge before alpha.