linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v4 11/23] powerpc/syscall: Rename syscall

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Date:   Tue, 26 Jan 2021 20:21:16 +1000
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@...roup.eu>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>, msuchanek@...e.de,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>
Cc:     linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 11/23] powerpc/syscall: Rename syscall_64.c into
 syscall.c

Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of January 26, 2021 12:48 am:
> syscall_64.c will be reused almost as is for PPC32.
> 
> Rename it syscall.c

Could you rename it to interrupt.c instead? A system call is an 
interrupt, and the file now also has code to return from other
interrupts as well, and it matches the new asm/interrupt.h from
the interrupts series.

Thanks,
Nick