netdev - Re: [PATCH v2 14/35] nds32: System calls handling

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Message-ID: <CAK8P3a2WuJGi8vdMHzGtRS6dny9VeTpWL8ShAFqzuxL4yZ2zhw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Tue, 28 Nov 2017 10:23:50 +0100
From:   Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
To:     Vincent Chen <deanbo422@...il.com>
Cc:     Greentime Hu <green.hu@...il.com>,
        Greentime <greentime@...estech.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-arch <linux-arch@...r.kernel.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Jason Cooper <jason@...edaemon.net>,
        Marc Zyngier <marc.zyngier@....com>,
        Rob Herring <robh+dt@...nel.org>,
        Networking <netdev@...r.kernel.org>,
        DTML <devicetree@...r.kernel.org>,
        Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        David Howells <dhowells@...hat.com>,
        Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>,
        Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@...aro.org>,
        linux-serial@...r.kernel.org, Vincent Chen <vincentc@...estech.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v2 14/35] nds32: System calls handling

On Tue, Nov 28, 2017 at 3:18 AM, Vincent Chen <deanbo422@...il.com> wrote:
> 2017-11-27 22:46 GMT+08:00 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>:
>> On Mon, Nov 27, 2017 at 1:28 PM, Greentime Hu <green.hu@...il.com> wrote:

>>> diff --git a/arch/nds32/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/nds32/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
>>> new file mode 100644
>>> index 0000000..2bad1e7
>>> --- /dev/null
>>> +++ b/arch/nds32/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
>>
>>> +
>>> +#define __ARCH_WANT_RENAMEAT
>>> +#define __ARCH_WANT_SYSCALL_OFF_T
>>
>> These two should not be here.
>>
>
> Thanks.
> But, I don't know I should move these two macro to which file.
> In asm-generic/unistd.h, these two are used to decide whether relative
> syscall number is defined or not.
> Therefore,  I put these two macros here in order that these two
> definitions are available in user space.

What I meant is that they should not be available to user space.

The C libraries implement the user space interfaces based
on the replacement system calls, e.g. an application calling
the glibc stat() function will end up in the sys_stat64() system
call entry point, not the older sys_newstat().

      Arnd