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David S. Miller 726799a4f9 Merge branch 'sparc-syscall-gen'
Firoz Khan says:

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sparc: system call table generation support

The purpose of this patch series is, we can easily
add/modify/delete system call table support by cha-
nging entry in syscall.tbl file instead of manually
changing many files. The other goal is to unify the
system call table generation support implementation
across all the architectures.

The system call tables are in different format in
all architecture. It will be difficult to manually
add, modify or delete the system calls in the resp-
ective files manually. To make it easy by keeping a
script and which'll generate uapi header file and
syscall table file.

syscall.tbl contains the list of available system
calls along with system call number and correspond-
ing entry point. Add a new system call in this arch-
itecture 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 sim-
ilar support. I leverage their implementation to
come up with a generic solution.

I have done the same support for work for alpha,
ia64, m68k, microblaze, mips, parisc, powerpc, sh
and xtensa. Below mentioned git repository contains
more details about the workflow.

https://github.com/frzkhn/system_call_table_generator/

Finally, this is the ground work to solve the Y2038
issue. We need to add two dozen of system calls to
solve Y2038 issue. So this patch series will help to
add new system calls easily by adding new entry in the
syscall.tbl.

Changes since v2:
 - changed from generic-y to generated-y in Kbuild.
 - added io_pgetevents entry in the syscall.tbl.
 - updated the compat system call table.

Changes since v1:
 - optimized/updated the syscall table generation
   scripts.
 - fixed all mixed indentation issues in syscall.tbl.
 - added "comments" in syscall.tbl.
====================

Signed-off-by: David S. Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
History 2018-11-18 18:52:27 -08:00
arch sparc: generate uapi header and system call table files 2018-11-18 18:52:22 -08:00
block SCSI: fix queue cleanup race before queue initialization is done 2018-11-14 08:19:10 -07:00
certs export.h: remove VMLINUX_SYMBOL() and VMLINUX_SYMBOL_STR() 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
crypto crypto: user - Zeroize whole structure given to user space 2018-11-09 17:35:43 +08:00
Documentation Power management updates for 4.20-rc3 2018-11-14 15:33:45 -06:00
drivers of: Drop full path from full_name for PDT systems 2018-11-18 13:35:20 -08:00
firmware kbuild: remove all dummy assignments to obj- 2017-11-18 11:46:06 +09:00
fs fs/openpromfs: Use of_node_name_eq for node name comparisons 2018-11-18 13:35:19 -08:00
include of: Drop full path from full_name for PDT systems 2018-11-18 13:35:20 -08:00
init memblock: stop using implicit alignment to SMP_CACHE_BYTES 2018-10-31 08:54:16 -07:00
ipc ipc: IPCMNI limit check for semmni 2018-10-31 08:54:14 -07:00
kernel Merge branch 'akpm' (patches from Andrew) 2018-11-18 11:31:26 -08:00
lib lib/ubsan.c: don't mark __ubsan_handle_builtin_unreachable as noreturn 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
LICENSES This is a fairly typical cycle for documentation. There's some welcome 2018-10-24 18:01:11 +01:00
mm mm/memblock.c: fix a typo in __next_mem_pfn_range() comments 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
net NFS client bugfixes for Linux 4.20 2018-11-15 10:59:37 -06:00
samples VFIO updates for v4.20 2018-10-31 11:01:38 -07:00
scripts scripts/spdxcheck.py: make python3 compliant 2018-11-18 10:15:10 -08:00
security selinux/stable-4.20 PR 20181115 2018-11-15 11:26:09 -06:00
sound ALSA: hda - Fix incorrect clearance of thinkpad_acpi hooks 2018-11-06 16:33:53 +01:00
tools libnvdimm 4.20-rc3 2018-11-18 12:21:09 -08:00
usr initramfs: move gen_initramfs_list.sh from scripts/ to usr/ 2018-08-22 23:21:44 +09:00
virt Revert "mm, mmu_notifier: annotate mmu notifiers with blockable invalidate callbacks" 2018-10-26 16:25:19 -07:00
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.cocciconfig scripts: add Linux .cocciconfig for coccinelle 2016-07-22 12:13:39 +02:00
.get_maintainer.ignore Add hch to .get_maintainer.ignore 2015-08-21 14:30:10 -07:00
.gitattributes .gitattributes: set git diff driver for C source code files 2016-10-07 18:46:30 -07:00
.gitignore Kbuild updates for v4.17 (2nd) 2018-04-15 17:21:30 -07:00
.mailmap mailmap: Update email for Punit Agrawal 2018-11-05 10:02:11 +00:00
COPYING COPYING: use the new text with points to the license files 2018-03-23 12:41:45 -06:00
CREDITS MAINTAINERS: update OMAP MMC entry 2018-11-18 10:15:09 -08:00
Kbuild Kbuild updates for v4.15 2017-11-17 17:45:29 -08:00
Kconfig kconfig: move the "Executable file formats" menu to fs/Kconfig.binfmt 2018-08-02 08:06:55 +09:00
MAINTAINERS MAINTAINERS: update OMAP MMC entry 2018-11-18 10:15:09 -08:00
Makefile Linux 4.20-rc2 2018-11-11 17:12:31 -06:00
README Drop all 00-INDEX files from Documentation/ 2018-09-09 15:08:58 -06:00

Linux kernel
============

There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.

In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``.  The formatted documentation can also be read online at:

    https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/

There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.

Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.