Re: [PATCH 02/15] arm: __NR_syscalls fix

[Russell King - ARM Linux]

On Fri, Apr 11, 2014 at 12:25:38PM +0200, Miklos Szeredi wrote:
> From: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> 
> Signed-off-by: Miklos Szeredi <mszeredi@xxxxxxx>
> Cc: Russell King <linux@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
> ---

This has me wondering...

(a) what you think it fixes
(b) whether you tried to build-test this

The ARM instruction set supports 8-bit immediate constants with an even
power of two shift.  384 fits that (0x180), 382 does not (0x17e), and
in your following patch, 383 definitely doesn't (0x17f).

Having this constant larger than necessary does not cause any problem
for the syscall table: we explicitly pad it with calls to sys_ni_syscall
to make up the difference.

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