From: "André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
To: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>, Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>,
Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
kernel-dev@igalia.com, "André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
Subject: [PATCH RFC 0/4] syscalls: Add a shared table for all archs
Date: Fri, 24 Jul 2026 17:00:10 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <20260724-tonyk-syscall_table-v1-0-9c53188423da@igalia.com> (raw)
While implementing a new syscall, we need to wire up it's number to the arch
table. Since syscall number 403, all architectures are on sync regarding the
number (except alpha), which make things a lot easier but more repetitive as
well. Have a look at commit b36d4b6aa88 ("arch: hookup listns() system call"),
with 15 lines of mostly:
+470 common listns sys_listns
There's already a "common" table shared with a bunch of archs at
`scripts/syscall.tbl`, but due to historical reasons some archs will never be
able to move to this table and share all the numbers.
In order to make things a bit easier, this patchset creates yet another common
syscall table with a subset of numbers that are already being shared among the
syscalls. I've started from syscall 442 (mount_setattr) to avoid dealing with
compat syscalls for now, but this already have the benefit of adding or rebasing
a new syscall much easier. If this work sounds reasonable I can later add more
syscalls, removing more repetitive lines from the code.
I've tested this with x86 and arm64, by comparing the syscalls_*.h and
unistd_*.h files generated before and after this patchset and they are
identical.
Thanks!
André
---
André Almeida (4):
syscalls: Create unified partial table for all archs
syscalls: Add support for x86_x32 for the common syscall table
x86: Use common syscall table
scripts/syscall.tbl: Use the common table
arch/arm64/tools/syscall_32.tbl | 30 -------------
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/Makefile | 15 ++++---
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 30 -------------
arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 30 -------------
scripts/Makefile.asm-headers | 4 +-
scripts/syscall.tbl | 30 -------------
scripts/syscall_common.tbl | 34 ++++++++++++++
scripts/syscallhdr.sh | 81 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++++-----
scripts/syscalltbl.sh | 26 ++++++++---
9 files changed, 134 insertions(+), 146 deletions(-)
---
base-commit: af5e34a41cd607c00ef752e00331736570992354
change-id: 20260724-tonyk-syscall_table-928bbb1b26bb
Best regards,
--
André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
next reply other threads:[~2026-07-24 20:00 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 11+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-07-24 20:00 André Almeida [this message]
2026-07-24 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC 1/4] syscalls: Create unified partial " André Almeida
2026-07-24 20:09 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-24 20:18 ` André Almeida
2026-07-24 20:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-24 21:22 ` H. Peter Anvin
2026-07-25 8:25 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-24 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC 2/4] syscalls: Add support for x86_x32 for the common syscall table André Almeida
2026-07-24 20:16 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-07-24 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC 3/4] x86: Use " André Almeida
2026-07-24 20:00 ` [PATCH RFC 4/4] scripts/syscall.tbl: Use the common table André Almeida
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