Re: [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry name

[Al Viro]

On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 07:31:55PM -0700, Richard Henderson wrote:

> > +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S
> > @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ entSys:
> >  	bne     $3, strace
> >  	beq	$4, 1f
> >  	ldq	$27, 0($5)
> > -1:	jsr	$26, ($27), alpha_ni_syscall
> > +1:	jsr	$26, ($27), sys_ni_syscall
> >  	ldgp	$gp, 0($26)
> >  	blt	$0, $syscall_error	/* the call failed */
> >  	stq	$0, 0($sp)
> 
> Once upon a time I had a patch to make the hint
> be sys_gettimeofday, as the most common syscall.
> Dunno what happened to that.

Might as well... ptraced case has it, non-ptraced doesn't.

BTW, seeing that it's your code - why was unop used in
alpha_ni_syscall?  I don't remember the rules re pipeline
stalls; is it that some earlier variants prefer unop to
nop in such places?  It's not that microoptimizing that
one makes any difference, but just out of curiosity -
would something like
	lda     $0, -ENOSYS
	stq     $sp, 0($sp)	/* sp != 0 */
	ret
do just as well there?