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author | Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org> | 2018-11-13 15:01:51 +0530 |
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committer | Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com> | 2018-12-21 11:57:56 -0500 |
commit | b67bfd298f4c7ab3762aebb354a0b16635c82211 (patch) | |
tree | d68e5ee2e452b5c8039c180352880ca010ecbb23 /README | |
parent | d8bf616be5f05b955d3ee32ad92d4cdb87e30349 (diff) |
alpha: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_SYSCALLS
NR_SYSCALLS macro holds the number of system call exist
in alpha architecture. We have to change the value of NR-
_SYSCALLS, if we add or delete a system call.
One of the 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 total number of system
calls information. So we have two option to update NR_SY-
CALLS value.
1. Update NR_SYSCALLS in asm/unistd.h manually by count-
ing the no.of system calls. No need to update NR_SYS-
CALLS until we either add a new system call or delete
existing system call.
2. We can keep this feature it above mentioned script,
that will count the number of syscalls and keep it in
a generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
citly update NR_SYSCALLS in asm/unistd.h file.
The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h along
with NR_SYSCALLS asm/unistd.h. The macro __NR_syscalls
also added for making the name convention same across all
architecture. While __NR_syscalls isn't strictly part of
the uapi, having it as part of the generated header to
simplifies the implementation. We also need to enclose
this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.
Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
Signed-off-by: Matt Turner <mattst88@gmail.com>
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