Re: linux-next: manual merge of the vfs-brauner tree with the asm-generic tree

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Jul 9, 2024, at 15:17, Jiri Olsa wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 09, 2024 at 02:58:06PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>> 
>> If this cannot be used on any other architectures, I would
>> suggest adding it to the architecture specific list instead,
>> probably number #335, which is unused on x86-64.
>> 
>> I was under the assumption that this would theoretically be
>> useful for non-x86 architectures in the future, in which
>
> yes, at the moment uretprobe is implemented on x86_64 only,
> but it could be perhaps implemented on other archs in future
>
>> case you should reserve the same syscall number everywhere
>
> hum, is that necessary? I don't mind, but I don't see why it
> should be the same number on another archs?

All new system calls have the same number across architectures
since number 403 for consistency (except arch/alpha, which
uses 110 more than the others).

Linus did comment the other day that he did not think we
need to actually assign the numbers when the system calls
are unlikely to actually be implemented on most architectures,
but it would be good to at least add a comment in each
syscall.tbl file to say which syscall the number is going
to be used for if it does get assigned.

     Arnd