linux-kernel - Re: [v6,1/5] powerpc: add __NR_syscalls along with NR

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Date:   Mon, 24 Dec 2018 00:28:03 +1100 (AEDT)
From:   Michael Ellerman <patch-notifications@...erman.id.au>
To:     Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org,
        sathnaga@...ux.vnet.ibm.com,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>,
        Ram Pai <linuxram@...ibm.com>,
        Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Philippe Ombredanne <pombredanne@...b.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Kate Stewart <kstewart@...uxfoundation.org>
Cc:     linux-arch@...r.kernel.org, y2038@...ts.linaro.org,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, marcin.juszkiewicz@...aro.org,
        firoz.khan@...aro.org, deepa.kernel@...il.com
Subject: Re: [v6,1/5] powerpc: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 10:40:32 UTC, Firoz Khan wrote:
> NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist
> in powerpc architecture. We have to change the value of
> NR_syscalls, if we add or delete a system call.
> 
> One of the patch in this patch series has a script which
> will generate a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file.
> The syscall.tbl file contains the number of system call
> information. So we have two option to update NR_syscalls
> value.
> 
> 1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by count-
>    ing the no.of system calls. No need to update NR_sys-
>    calls until we either add a new system call or delete
>    existing system call.
> 
> 2. We can keep this feature in above mentioned script,
>    that will count the number of syscalls and keep it in
>    a generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
>    citly update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.
> 
> The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
> added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h along
> with NR_syscalls asm/unistd.h. The macro __NR_syscalls
> also added for making the name convention same across all
> architecture. While __NR_syscalls isn't strictly part of
> the uapi, having it as part of the generated header to
> simplifies the implementation. We also need to enclose
> this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8a19eeeab66dfdd7c67bc8e3048ac0

cheers