Michael Cree <mcree@xxxxxxxxxxxx> writes: > On Fri, Jul 14, 2017 at 05:59:06AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote: >> in which cases the oddities will happen let alone test them. Plus at >> least for ia64 and alpha those architectures don't appear to be >> receiving updates for new syscalls, and no new hardware is being built >> so I don't know how much longer they will last. >> >> That is building for alpha gives: >> > CALL /home/eric/projects/linux/linux-exit-cleanups/scripts/checksyscalls.sh >> > <stdin>:1239:2: warning: #warning syscall seccomp not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1248:2: warning: #warning syscall bpf not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1299:2: warning: #warning syscall userfaultfd not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1302:2: warning: #warning syscall membarrier not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1305:2: warning: #warning syscall mlock2 not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1308:2: warning: #warning syscall copy_file_range not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1311:2: warning: #warning syscall preadv2 not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1314:2: warning: #warning syscall pwritev2 not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1317:2: warning: #warning syscall pkey_mprotect not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1320:2: warning: #warning syscall pkey_alloc not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1323:2: warning: #warning syscall pkey_free not implemented [-Wcpp] >> > <stdin>:1326:2: warning: #warning syscall statx not implemented [-Wcpp] > > Patches to wire up most of those syscalls on Alpha was posted recently > along with others to fix module loading, etc., but unfortunately they > do not appear to have been applied during the merge window... Odd. In general wiring up system calls is something that can even happen in -rc2 or -rc3 as system calls get added in -rc1 and then the architectures have a chance to send in the small patches wiring the up. At least that is how I understand the usual rules for being a non-x86 architecture. Eric
