Re: [PATCH 1/1] syscalls: Fix references to filenames containing syscall defs

On Tue, Nov 5, 2019 at 10:34 AM Thomas Gleixner [off-list ref] wrote:

On Mon, 4 Nov 2019, Mohammad Nasirifar wrote:

quoted

Fix stale references to files containing syscall definitions in
'include/linux/syscalls.h' and 'include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h',
pointing to 'kernel/itimer.c', 'kernel/hrtimer.c', and 'kernel/time.c'.
They are now under 'kernel/time'.

Also definitions of 'getpid', 'getppid', 'getuid', 'geteuid', 'getgid',
'getegid', 'gettid', and 'sysinfo' are now in 'kernel/sys.c'.

Can we please remove these file references completely. They are going to be
stale sooner than later again and they really do not provide any value.

+1

Good idea!

In the long run, I'd prefer to have a parsable format that can be used to
generate both the header file and the stubs that we currently provide
using SYSCALL_DEFINEx(), but before that I'd like the remaining two
unistd.h files to be converted to syscall.tbl format (Nitesh is still working
on that).

      Arnd