[PATCH 09/17] arm64: convert unistd_32.h to syscall.tbl format

Catalin Marinas catalin.marinas at arm.com
Fri Jul 5 05:10:21 PDT 2024


On Thu, Jul 04, 2024 at 04:36:03PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>
> 
> This is a straight conversion from the old asm/unistd32.h into the
> format used by 32-bit arm and most other architectures, calling scripts
> to generate the asm/unistd32.h header and a new asm/syscalls32.h headers.
> 
> I used a semi-automated text replacement method to do the conversion,
> and then used 'vimdiff' to synchronize the whitespace and the (unused)
> names of the non-compat syscalls with the arm version.
> 
> There are two differences between the generated syscalls names and the
> old version:
> 
>  - the old asm/unistd32.h contained only a __NR_sync_file_range2
>    entry, while the arm32 version also defines
>    __NR_arm_sync_file_range with the same number. I added this
>    duplicate back in asm/unistd32.h.
> 
>  - __NR__sysctl was removed from the arm64 file a while ago, but
>    all the tables still contain it. This should probably get removed
>    everywhere but I added it here for consistency.
> 
> On top of that, the arm64 version does not contain any references to
> the 32-bit OABI syscalls that are not supported by arm64. If we ever
> want to share the file between arm32 and arm64, it would not be
> hard to add support for both in one file.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd at arndb.de>

Acked-by: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas at arm.com>



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