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SubjectRe: [PATCH 3/6] alpha: Unify the not-implemented system call entry name
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On 08/10/2018 05:04 PM, Al Viro wrote:
> Once upon a time it used to have a C part that printed a warning
> about unimplemented OSF syscalls. That's what it's been doing
> all over the OSF syscall range, while the native Linux syscall
> range uses sys_ni_syscall().
>
> With those warnings about unimplemented OSF syscalls gone (circa 2.4),
> alpha_ni_syscall() has shrunk to that little bit of asm and the
> only reason it hasn't been replaced with sys_ni_syscall() everywhere
> is that extra twist needed in case of syscall #0.
>
> Let's keep it only for syscall #0 and replace the rest with sys_ni_syscall.
> And use sys_ni_syscall for "number out range" in ptraced-call case, as
> we'd been doing for normal codepath since 2.1.86...
>
> Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>

Acked-by: Richard Henderson <rth@twiddle.net>


> +++ b/arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S
> @@ -473,7 +473,7 @@ entSys:
> bne $3, strace
> beq $4, 1f
> ldq $27, 0($5)
> -1: jsr $26, ($27), alpha_ni_syscall
> +1: jsr $26, ($27), sys_ni_syscall
> ldgp $gp, 0($26)
> blt $0, $syscall_error /* the call failed */
> stq $0, 0($sp)

Once upon a time I had a patch to make the hint
be sys_gettimeofday, as the most common syscall.
Dunno what happened to that.

But I must guess that an unimplemented syscall has got
to be the anti-hint of the ... long-ass-time-frame.


r~

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