linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 14/15] arch: add split IPC system calls where needed

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Date:   Tue, 15 Jan 2019 17:35:55 +0100
From:   Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@...ux-m68k.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH 14/15] arch: add split IPC system calls where needed

Hi Arnd,

On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:19 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> On Tue, Jan 15, 2019 at 4:01 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
> > On Mon, Jan 14, 2019 at 4:59 AM Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au> wrote:
> > > Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:
> > > >  arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl     | 11 +++++++++++
> > > >  arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl | 11 +++++++++++
> > > >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl  | 12 ++++++++++++
> > >
> > > I have some changes I'd like to make to our syscall table that will
> > > clash with this.
> > >
> > > I'll try and send them today.
> >
> > Ok. Are those for 5.0 or 5.1? If they are intended for 5.0, it would be
> > nice for me to have a branch based on 5.0-rc1 that I can put
> > the other patches on top of.
>
> There is also another change that I considered:
>
> At the end of my series, we have a lot of entries like
>
> 245     32      clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime32
> 245     64      clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime
> 245     spu     clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime
>
> which could be folded into
>
> 245     32      clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime32
> 245     spu64 clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime
>
> if we just add another option to the ABI field. Any thoughts on
> that?

So "spu64" would mean "spu + 64"?
That makes it more difficult to read, and to grep.
What about allowing multiple ABIs, separated by commas?
So that line would become:

    245     spu,64 clock_settime                   sys_clock_settime

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

                        Geert

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