__NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist in POWERPC 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 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 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 moved the NR_syscalls macro from asm/unistd.h to uapi/asm/unistd.h. The macro name also changed form NR_syscalls to __NR_syscalls 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.
Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan firoz.khan@linaro.org --- arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h | 3 +-- arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h | 2 ++ 2 files changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h index c19379f..54732f9 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h @@ -11,8 +11,7 @@
#include <uapi/asm/unistd.h>
- -#define NR_syscalls 389 +#define NR_syscalls __NR_syscalls
#define __NR__exit __NR_exit
diff --git a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h index 985534d..f999df2 100644 --- a/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h @@ -401,4 +401,6 @@ #define __NR_rseq 387 #define __NR_io_pgetevents 388
+#define __NR_syscalls 389 + #endif /* _UAPI_ASM_POWERPC_UNISTD_H_ */