Hi Folks, On Tue, 13 Nov 2018 at 15:02, Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily > add/modify/delete system call table support by cha- > nging 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 resp- > ective 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 correspond- > ing entry point. Add a new system call in this arch- > itecture 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 sim- > ilar support. I leverage their implementation to > come up with a generic solution. > > I have done the same support for work for ia64, m68k, > microblaze, mips, parisc, powerpc, sh, sparc and xtensa. > Below mentioned git repository contains more details > about the workflow. > > 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. > > changes since v2: > - changed from generic-y to generated-y in Kbuild. > - made changes in syscall.tbl for removing entry - > alpha_ni_syscall. > > changes since v1: > - optimized/updated the syscall table generation > scripts. > - fixed all mixed indentation issues in syscall.tbl. > - added "comments" in syscall.tbl. > - enclosed __NR_sycalls macro with __KERNEL__. > - added missing new line. > > Firoz Khan (5): > alpha: move __IGNORE* entries to non uapi header > alpha: remove CONFIG_OSF4_COMPAT flag from syscall table > alpha: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_SYSCALLS > alpha: add system call table generation support > alpha: generate uapi header and syscall table header files Could someone review this patch series and queue it for 4.21 through alpha tree would be great. Thanks Firoz
