Re: missing syscalls

[Russell King <rmk@arm.linux.org.uk>]

On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 09:23:55PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 08:15:12PM +0100, Russell King wrote:
> > On Sun, Apr 01, 2007 at 06:01:23PM +0200, Sam Ravnborg wrote:
> > > ============== arm ================
> > >   CALL    /home/sam/kernel/kbuild.git/scripts/checksyscalls.sh
> > > <stdin>:1092:2: warning: #warning syscall fadvise64 not implemented
> > 
> > and probably never will be.
> > 
> > > <stdin>:1220:2: warning: #warning syscall kexec_load not implemented
> > 
> > For the ARM kexec-using folk to decide.

Actually, this is the result of a typo, and should be fixed.

> > 
> > > <stdin>:1260:2: warning: #warning syscall migrate_pages not implemented
> > 
> > Does this make sense for ARM?  I've no idea.
> > 
> > > <stdin>:1176:2: warning: #warning syscall fadvise64_64 not implemented
> > > <stdin>:1340:2: warning: #warning syscall sync_file_range not implemented
> > 
> > These two are replaced by a special ARM version which sane argument
> > ordering.  My patch for a previous version of the syscall check stuff
> > shut these warnings up.
> Should they be ignored only for arm (and arm26?) or in general?

for ARM only, as per my original patch.

+#define __IGNORE_fadvise64_64          /* we provide our own - see above */
+#define __IGNORE_sync_file_range       /* we provide our own - see above */


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Russell King
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