Re: [PATCH 0/4] System call table generation support

[Helge Deller]

Hi Firoz,

On 14.09.2018 10:26, Firoz Khan wrote:
> The purpose of this patch series is:
> 1. We can easily add/modify/delete system call by changing entry 
> in syscall.tbl file. No need to manually edit many files.
> 
> 2. It is easy to unify the system call implementation across all 
> the architectures. 

I like the idea.
 
> The system call tables are in different format in all architecture 
> and it will be difficult to manually add or modify the system calls
> in the respective files manually. To make it easy by keeping a script 
> and which'll generate the header file and syscall table file so this 
> change will unify them across all architectures.
> 
> syscall.tbl contains the list of available system calls along with 
> system call number and corresponding entry point. Add a new system 
> call in this architecture will be possible by adding new entry in 
> the syscall.tbl file.
> 
> Adding a new table entry consisting of:
>         - System call number.
>         - ABI.
>         - System call name.
>         - Entry point name.
>         - Compat entry name, if required.
> 
> ARM, s390 and x86 architecuture does exist the similar support. I 
> leverage their implementation to come up with a generic solution.
> 
> I have done the same support for work for alpha, m68k, microblaze, 
> ia64, mips, powerpc, sh, sparc, and xtensa. But I started sending 
> the patch for one architecuture for review. Below mentioned git
> repository contains more details.
> Git repo:- https://github.com/frzkhn/system_call_table_generator/
> 
> Finally, this is the ground work for solving the Y2038 issue. We 
> need to add/change two dozen of system calls to solve Y2038 issue. 
> So this patch series will help to easily modify from existing 
> system call to Y2038 compatible system calls.
> 
> I started working system call table generation on 4.17-rc1. I used 
> marcin's script - https://github.com/hrw/syscalls-table to generate 
> the syscall.tbl file. And this will be the input to the system call 
> table generation script. But there are couple system call got add 
> in the latest rc release. If run Marcin's script on latest release,
> It will generate a new syscall.tbl. But I still use the old file - 
> syscall.tbl and once all review got over I'll update syscall.tbl 
> alone w.r.to the tip of the kernel. The impact of this thing, few 
> of the system call won't work. 
> 
> Firoz Khan (4):
>   parisc: Move __IGNORE* entries to non uapi header
>   parisc: Replace __NR_Linux_syscalls macro with __NR_syscalls
>   parisc: Add system call table generation support
>   parisc: uapi header and system call table file generation
> 
>  arch/parisc/Makefile                       |   4 +
>  arch/parisc/include/asm/Kbuild             |   3 +
>  arch/parisc/include/asm/unistd.h           |   8 +
>  arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild        |   2 +
>  arch/parisc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h      | 377 +----------------------
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscall.S               |  14 +-
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table.S         | 459 -----------------------------
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table_32.S      |  11 +
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table_64.S      |  19 ++
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile       |  52 ++++
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 358 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 357 ++++++++++++++++++++++
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh  |  38 +++
>  arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh  |  36 +++
>  14 files changed, 896 insertions(+), 842 deletions(-)
>  delete mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table.S
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscall_table_64.S
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh
>  create mode 100644 arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh

Your parisc patches don't apply any longer.
If you update them (with the feedback given by others), I'm happy
to test your patch again on parisc.

Helge