On Fri, Dec 14, 2018 at 10:18 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > 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. Thank you! I'll take a look.
