Hi Geert,
On Tue, 4 Dec 2018 at 14:22, Geert Uytterhoeven geert@linux-m68k.org wrote:
On Tue, Nov 13, 2018 at 7:01 AM Firoz Khan firoz.khan@linaro.org 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 alpha, ia64, 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 v4:
- changed from generic-y to generated-y in Kbuild.
- remove the patch "0001-m68k-rename-system-call- table-file-name.patch".
changes since v3:
- optimized/updated the syscall table generation scripts.
- fixed all mixed indentation issues in syscall.tbl.
- added "comments" in syscall_*.tbl.
changes since v2:
- removed __IGNORE entries which was added in v2 to suppress the warning.
- added missing new line.
changes since v1:
- enclosed __NR_sycalls macro with __KERNEL__.
Firoz Khan (3): m68k: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls m68k: add system call table generation support m68k: generate uapi header and syscall table header files
arch/m68k/Makefile | 3 + arch/m68k/include/asm/Kbuild | 1 + arch/m68k/include/asm/unistd.h | 3 +- arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 1 + arch/m68k/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 385 +------------------------------ arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/Makefile | 38 ++++ arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 389 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++ arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh | 36 +++ arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh | 32 +++ arch/m68k/kernel/syscalltable.S | 387 +------------------------------ 10 files changed, 507 insertions(+), 768 deletions(-) create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/Makefile create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh create mode 100644 arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh
Thanks, applied and queued for v4.21 (with the missing newline added).
Great, Thanks!
Firoz
Gr{oetje,eeting}s,
Geert-- Geert Uytterhoeven -- There's lots of Linux beyond ia32 -- geert@linux-m68k.org
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