Re: [PATCH] alpha: Wire up missing syscalls

[Chen Gang]

On 05/12/2015 10:29 PM, Dave Jones wrote:
> On Tue, May 12, 2015 at 08:59:52PM +1200, Michael Cree wrote:
>  > On Sun, May 10, 2015 at 02:33:36AM +0800, Chen Gang wrote:
>  > > The related warnings:
>  > > 
>  > >     CALL    scripts/checksyscalls.sh
>  > >   <stdin>:1238:2: warning: #warning syscall seccomp not implemented [-Wcpp]
>  > >   <stdin>:1241:2: warning: #warning syscall getrandom not implemented [-Wcpp]
>  > >   <stdin>:1244:2: warning: #warning syscall memfd_create not implemented [-Wcpp]
>  > >   <stdin>:1247:2: warning: #warning syscall bpf not implemented [-Wcpp]
>  > >   <stdin>:1250:2: warning: #warning syscall execveat not implemented [-Wcpp]
>  > 
>  > Chen: Have you tested the syscalls you have wired up?
>  > 
>  > I have a suspicion that more is required to wire up the seccomp
>  > syscall.
> 
> likewise sys_bpf judging by the absence of bpf_int_jit_compile and friends in arch/alpha
> The weak symbols mean it probably compiles/links, but it doesn't actually do
> anything, and now instead of -ENOSYS, anyone trying to actually use that syscall
> on alpha will get weird results.
> 
> Shutting up warnings like this strikes me as the wrong thing to do.
> 

It sounds reasonable. For me, we need to wire up implemented syscalls,
and still left the unimplemented syscalls as building warnings.

If no any additional reply, I shall try to send patch v2 for it within
this week (2015-05-17).


Thanks.
-- 
Chen Gang

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