[GIT PULL] Disintegrate UAPI for arm64 [ver #2]

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Tue Oct 9 13:25:59 EDT 2012


On Tue, Oct 09, 2012 at 10:15:13AM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> David Howells (1):
>       UAPI: (Scripted) Disintegrate arch/arm64/include/asm

It still fails on arm64. The reason is that I had a __SYSCALL_COMPAT
guard to provide either the 32-bit syscalls or the 64-bit (generic) ones
via asm/unistd.h. With this change:

> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h
> index 8f03dee..3d43b19 100644
> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h
> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd.h
> @@ -13,13 +13,7 @@
>   * You should have received a copy of the GNU General Public License
>   * along with this program.  If not, see <http://www.gnu.org/licenses/>.
>   */
> -
> -#ifndef __SYSCALL_COMPAT
> -#include <asm-generic/unistd.h>
> -#endif
> -
> -#ifdef __KERNEL__
>  #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT
>  #include <asm/unistd32.h>
>  #endif
> -#endif
> +#include <uapi/asm/unistd.h>

the guard disappears and I get conflicting entries between unistd32.h
and unistd.h.

The solution is to either keep the __SYSCALL_COMPAT guard in place or
rename all the __NR_* macros in unistd32.h to __NR_compat_* and include
unistd32.h explicitly where needed (kernel-only header anyway). Since
the arm64 kernel would not export 32-bit headers, I would go with the
second solution (tried it already). But you need to re-generate the
arm64 headers again.

BTW, I see the script generated some pretty much empty
uapi/asm/unistd.h. Is it possible to using something like Kbuild and
just add "generic-y += ..." to just point it to the
include/uapi/asm-generic header?

-- 
Catalin




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