[PATCH] perf arm64: Fix mksyscalltbl, don't lose syscalls due to sort -nu

From: Hans-Peter Nilsson
Date: Sun Dec 27 2020 - 21:42:38 EST


When using "sort -nu", arm64 syscalls were lost. That is, the
io_setup syscall (number 0) and all but one (typically
ftruncate; 64) of the syscalls that are defined symbolically
(like "#define __NR_ftruncate __NR3264_ftruncate") at the point
where "sort" is applied.

This creation-of-syscalls.c-scheme is, judging from comments,
copy-pasted from powerpc, and worked there because at the time,
its tools/arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h had *literals*,
like "#define __NR_ftruncate 93".

With sort being numeric and the non-numeric key effectively
evaluating to 0, the sort option "-u" means these "duplicates"
are removed. There's no need to remove syscall lines with
duplicate numbers for arm64 because there are none, so let's fix
that by just losing the "-u". Having the table numerically
sorted on syscall-number for the rest of the syscalls looks
nice, so keep the "-n".

Signed-off-by: Hans-Peter Nilsson <hp@xxxxxxxx>
Cc: John Garry <john.garry@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Will Deacon <will@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mathieu Poirier <mathieu.poirier@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Leo Yan <leo.yan@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Peter Zijlstra <peterz@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@xxxxxxx>
Cc: Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@xxxxxxxxxx>
Cc: Kim Phillips <kim.phillips@xxxxxxx>
---
tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl | 2 +-
1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
index 459469b7222c..a7ca48d1e37b 100755
--- a/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/arm64/entry/syscalls/mksyscalltbl
@@ -58,5 +58,5 @@ create_table()

$gcc -E -dM -x c -I $incpath/include/uapi $input \
|sed -ne 's/^#define __NR_//p' \
- |sort -t' ' -k2 -nu \
+ |sort -t' ' -k2 -n \
|create_table
--
2.11.0

brgds, H-P