Re: [PATCH v3 4/7] ia64: replace the system call table entries from entry.S

From: Firoz Khan
Date: Thu Oct 11 2018 - 04:35:47 EST


On Thu, 11 Oct 2018 at 13:03, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Thu, Oct 11, 2018 at 6:25 AM Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> >
> > In IA64, system call table entries are the part of entry.S file.
> > We need to keep it in a separate file so that one of the patch in
> > this patch series contains a system call table generation script
> > which can separately handle system call table entries.
> >
> > Replaced the system call table from entry.S to syscall_table.S,
> > this is a new file. This change will unify the implementation
> > across all the architecture and to simplify the implementation for
> > system call table generation using the script.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> > ---
> > arch/ia64/kernel/entry.S | 333 +-------------------------------------
> > arch/ia64/kernel/syscall_table.S | 334 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>
> According to the discussion we had on the same patch for parisc,
> I suppose we can skip this one as well now, and just remove the
> entries when the generated table is added.

Sure.

>
> Arnd