[PATCH RFC 0/1] UAPI,x86: export syscall numbers for all x86 archs

From: David Drysdale
Date: Tue Jul 28 2015 - 04:09:04 EST


A while ago I was trying to build a seccomp-bpf filter program that would
survive a change of x86 architecture. This was complicated for all sorts of
reasons, but one of the problems was that the different syscall numbers aren't
all available at the same time -- hence this patch.

Naming-wise, Andy Lutomirski has indicated he'd prefer the prefixes to be
__NR_x86_64_, __NR_x86_64_x32_ and __NR_i386_; however, for the latter two
sets of numbers there are existing headers that use different prefixes
(__NR_x32_ and __NR_ia32_), so altering those would involve a change and/or an
additional set of definitions. For the new constants I've left in my
original suggestion (__NR_amd64_) for the time being.

What are folks' thoughts about the preferred naming for these?


David Drysdale (1):
UAPI,x86: export syscall numbers for all x86 archs

arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile | 11 ++++++++---
arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild | 3 +++
2 files changed, 11 insertions(+), 3 deletions(-)

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