Hi Firoz, On Fri, Oct 26, 2018 at 7:06 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily add/modify/delete > system call table support by changing entry in syscall.tbl file > instead of manually changing many files. The other goal is to unify > the system call table generation support implementation across all > the architectures. > > The system call tables are in different format in all architecture. > It will be difficult to manually add, modify or delete the system > calls in the respective files manually. To make it easy by keeping > a script and which'll generate uapi header file and syscall table > file. > > syscall.tbl contains the list of available system calls along with > system call number and corresponding entry point. Add a new system > call in this architecture will be possible by adding new entry in > the syscall.tbl file. > > Adding a new table entry consisting of: > - System call number. > - ABI. > - System call name. > - Entry point name. > > ARM, s390 and x86 architecuture does exist the similar support. I > leverage their implementation to come up with a generic solution. > > I have done the same support for work for alpha, ia64, microblaze, > mips, parisc, powerpc, sh, sparc, and xtensa. Below mentioned git > repository contains more details. > Git repo:- https://github.com/frzkhn/system_call_table_generator/ > > Finally, this is the ground work to solve the Y2038 issue. We need > to add two dozen of system calls to solve Y2038 issue. So this patch > series will help to add new system calls easily by adding new entry > in the syscall.tbl. Thanks for the update! Can you please tell the audience what has been changed in v4? When posting a new version of a patch or patch series, it is a good idea to include a changelog in the cover letter and/or patches. Thanks! Gr{oetje,eeting}s, Geert -- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx In personal conversations with technical people, I call myself a hacker. But when I'm talking to journalists I just say "programmer" or something like that. -- Linus Torvalds
