On 5/5/20 5:24 PM, Dave Martin wrote: > arm64 is currently documented as receiving the syscall number in > x8. > > While this is the correct register, the syscall number is a 32-bit > integer. Bits [63:32] are ignored by the kernel. > > So it is more correct to say "w8". Thanks, Dave. Patch applied, with Will's Acked-by. Cheers, Michael > Signed-off-by: Dave Martin <Dave.Martin@xxxxxxx> > --- > man2/syscall.2 | 2 +- > 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-) > > diff --git a/man2/syscall.2 b/man2/syscall.2 > index 53ab40e..d724651 100644 > --- a/man2/syscall.2 > +++ b/man2/syscall.2 > @@ -203,7 +203,7 @@ alpha callsys v0 v0 a4 a3 1, 6 > arc trap0 r8 r0 - - > arm/OABI swi NR - r0 - - 2 > arm/EABI swi 0x0 r7 r0 r1 - > -arm64 svc #0 x8 x0 x1 - > +arm64 svc #0 w8 x0 x1 - > blackfin excpt 0x0 P0 R0 - - > i386 int $0x80 eax eax edx - > ia64 break 0x100000 r15 r8 r9 r10 1, 6 > -- Michael Kerrisk Linux man-pages maintainer; http://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ Linux/UNIX System Programming Training: http://man7.org/training/
