On Thu, Sep 20, 2018 at 5:06 PM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist in m68k
architecture. This macro is currently the part of asm/unistd.h file.
We have to change the value of NR_syscalls, if we add or delete a
system call.
One of patch in this patch series has a script which will generate
a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file. The syscall.tbl file
contains the number of system call information. So we have two
option to update NR_syscalls value.
1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by counting the
no.of system calls. No need to update NR_syscalls untill
we either add a new system call or delete an existing system
call.
2. We can keep this feature it above mentioned script, that'll
count the number of syscalls and keep it in a generated file.
In this case we don't need to explicitly update NR_syscalls
in asm/unistd.h file.
The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I come up
with another macro - __NR_syscalls which will be updated by the
script and it will be present in api/asm/unistd.h. While __NR_syscalls
isn't strictly part of the uapi, having it as part of the generated
header to simplifies the implementation. So we need to enclose this
macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.
Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Reviewed-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert
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