From: "André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
To: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Cc: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
Nathan Chancellor <nathan@kernel.org>,
Thomas Gleixner <tglx@kernel.org>,
linux-kbuild@vger.kernel.org,
Masami Hiramatsu <mhiramat@kernel.org>,
kernel-dev@igalia.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH RFC v3 8/8] mips: Use the common syscall table
Date: Mon, 10 Aug 2026 10:20:30 -0300 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <cac9327a-25f9-4a56-8aea-e9eda7f1c76a@igalia.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <772d5c6a-d080-4bff-acbd-5021d93ca2d7@app.fastmail.com>
Em 07/08/2026 18:02, Arnd Bergmann escreveu:
> On Fri, Aug 7, 2026, at 21:34, André Almeida wrote:
>> Syscall numbers from 403 are shared with all architectures, so move the
>> toolchain to use the common syscall table and remove duplicated code.
>>
>> The generated files are not exactly the same as before, but they have no
>> functional changes:
>>
>> - for O32 ABI, the syscall table would have entries like
>> __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(403, sys_clock_gettime, sys_clock_gettime)
>> which is equivalent to the new entry __SYSCALL(403, sys_clock_gettime)
>>
>> - for N32 ABI, the syscall table would have entries like
>> __SYSCALL(413, compat_sys_pselect6_time64), which is equivalent to
>> __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(413, sys_pselect6, compat_sys_pselect6_time64)
>> given the new __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT() definition for N32.
>>
>> The generated syscall table for N64 is exactly the same.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: André Almeida <andrealmeid@igalia.com>
>> ---
>> arch/mips/kernel/scall64-n32.S | 1 +
>> arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/Makefile | 22 +++++++---
>> arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n32.tbl | 68 -------------------------------
>> arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_n64.tbl | 48 ----------------------
>> arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscall_o32.tbl | 68 -------------------------------
>> 5 files changed, 18 insertions(+), 189 deletions(-)
>
> I still wonder whether we should combine the n32 and n64 tables
> here. Since the script can now deal with multiple input files,
> the first 211 syscall numbers can be in a shared file, while
> numbers 212 through 332 are always going to be different.
>
> Alternatively, two the files could just be merged into one file
> like
>
> 0 common read sys_read
> 1 common write sys_write
> ...
> 13 common rt_sigaction sys_rt_sigaction compat_sys_rt_sigaction
> ...
> 210 common remap_file_pages sys_remap_file_pages
> 211 common rt_sigreturn sys_rt_sigreturn
> ...
> 212 32 fcntl64 compat_sys_fcntl64
> 213 32 set_tid_address sys_set_tid_address
> ...
> 212 64 set_tid_address sys_set_tid_address
> 213 64 restart_syscall sys_restart_syscall
>
>
>> -$(kapi)/unistd_nr_%.h: $(src)/syscall_%.tbl $(sysnr) FORCE
>> +abis := common,__cln3
>> +
>> +abis_n32 := $(abis),32,n32
>> +abis_o32 := $(abis),32,o32
>> +abis_n64 := $(abis),64,n64
>
> We should probably drop the custom ABI names here and just use
> common/32/64 in the .tbl file. There was never a real need for
> the special case here, and now it causes extra complexity.
>
Ok! I like this ideas, I will prepare it for v4
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2026-08-10 13:20 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 17+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2026-08-07 19:34 [PATCH RFC v3 0/8] syscalls: Add a shared table for all archs André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 1/8] syscalls: Make --abis parsing more robust André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 2/8] syscalls: Create unified partial table for all archs André Almeida
2026-08-07 20:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-08-10 13:19 ` André Almeida
2026-08-10 14:22 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 3/8] scripts/syscall.tbl: Use the common table André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 4/8] arm: Use the common syscall table André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 5/8] s390: " André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 6/8] sparc: " André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 7/8] mips: Remove duplicated syscallnr.sh André Almeida
2026-08-07 19:34 ` [PATCH RFC v3 8/8] mips: Use the common syscall table André Almeida
2026-08-07 21:02 ` Arnd Bergmann
2026-08-10 13:20 ` André Almeida [this message]
2026-08-07 20:43 ` [PATCH RFC v3 0/8] syscalls: Add a shared table for all archs Arnd Bergmann
2026-08-10 13:25 ` André Almeida
2026-08-10 14:18 ` Arnd Bergmann
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