Re: [PATCH v4 12/12] alpha: Use the common syscall table

["André Almeida" <andrealmeid@igalia.com>]

Em 12/08/2026 06:09, Arnd Bergmann escreveu:
> On Wed, Aug 12, 2026, at 05:33, André Almeida wrote:
>> Remove some of the duplicated code by using the common syscall number
>>
>>   quiet_cmd_syshdr = SYSHDR  $@
>> -      cmd_syshdr = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(syshdr) --emit-nr $< $@
>> +      cmd_syshdr = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(syshdr) --emit-nr \
>> +		   --common-tbl $(systbl_common) --common-offset 110 \
>> +		   --abis $(abis) $< $@
>>
>>   quiet_cmd_systbl = SYSTBL  $@
>> -      cmd_systbl = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(systbl) $< $@
>> +      cmd_systbl = $(CONFIG_SHELL) $(systbl) \
>> +		   --common-tbl $(systbl_common) --common-offset 110 \
>> +		   --abis $(abis) $< $@
> 
> The --common-offset agument does seem simple enough here and it
> avoids processing the files separately.
> 
>> @@ -45,6 +45,7 @@
>>   434	common	pidfd_open			sys_pidfd_open
>>   435	clone3	clone3				sys_clone3
>>   435	__clone3	clone3			__sys_clone3
>> +435     alpha  	clone3                          alpha_clone3
>>   436	common	close_range			sys_close_range
>>   437	common	openat2				sys_openat2
>>   438	common	pidfd_getfd			sys_pidfd_getfd
> 
> I think it would be nicer to change the "fork_like" macro in
> arch/alpha/kernel/entry.S to use the same __sys_clone3 name
> (and fork/vfork/clone) that we have on
> m68k/mips/nios2/openrisc/sparc and save another special case.
> 

Ok, I will follow this approach for now.

Thanks!