Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add NR_syscalls for x86_64

[Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>]

On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 06:44:00PM -0400, Steven Rostedt wrote:
> On Tue, 25 Aug 2009, Frederic Weisbecker wrote:
> 
> > On Mon, Aug 24, 2009 at 05:40:18PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > > Add a dynamic definition of NR_syscalls for x86_64. This is used in the 
> > > syscall events tracing code.
> > > 
> > > Signed-off-by: Jason Baron <jbaron@redhat.com>
> > > 
> > > ---
> > >  include/linux/ftrace.h |    5 +++++
> > >  1 files changed, 5 insertions(+), 0 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/include/linux/ftrace.h b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > > index dc3b132..3bd94ee 100644
> > > --- a/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > > +++ b/include/linux/ftrace.h
> > > @@ -14,6 +14,11 @@
> > >  
> > >  #include <asm/ftrace.h>
> > >  
> > > +#ifdef CONFIG_X86_64
> > > +#include <asm/asm-offsets.h>
> > > +#define NR_syscalls (__NR_syscall_max + 1)
> > > +#endif
> > > +
> > 
> > 
> > I'd rather see this in arch/x86/include/unistd_64.h, since
> > NR_syscalls seems to be the defined in unistd.h in all archs.
> > 
> > That also makes a unified way to retrieve this number for
> > other users.
> > 
> 
> Yes, NR_syscalls should be included there.
> 
> -- Steve

right, for x86_64, unistd.h is included to generate __NR_syscall_max
which is then used for NR_syscalls. So I did initially try it there, but
there were dependency problems. I'll see what I can come up with...

thanks,

-Jason