From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1753800Ab1KQWx2 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:53:28 -0500 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:43256 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751221Ab1KQWx1 (ORCPT ); Thu, 17 Nov 2011 17:53:27 -0500 Message-ID: <4EC58FF1.109@zytor.com> Date: Thu, 17 Nov 2011 14:51:29 -0800 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:7.0) Gecko/20110927 Thunderbird/7.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Steven Rostedt CC: "H. Peter Anvin" , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, kbuild@vger.kernel.org, Ingo Molnar , Thomas Gleixner , "H.J. Lu" , David Woodhouse , Michal Marek , Sam Ravnborg , Geert Uytterhoeven , Frederic Weisbecker Subject: Re: [PATCH 5/8] trace: Include in trace_syscalls.c References: <1321569446-20433-1-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> <1321569446-20433-6-git-send-email-hpa@linux.intel.com> <1321569737.3533.20.camel@frodo> In-Reply-To: <1321569737.3533.20.camel@frodo> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.3.3 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=UTF-8 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 11/17/2011 02:42 PM, Steven Rostedt wrote: > On Thu, 2011-11-17 at 14:37 -0800, H. Peter Anvin wrote: >> From: "H. Peter Anvin" >> >> Include into trace_syscalls.c, to allow for >> NR_syscalls to be automatically generated. > > Did this cause some sort of bug before? What was the issue before this > patch? > (Of course, there are architectures on which the syscall set isn't a dense set of numbers in the range [0, NR_syscalls), but that's another issue entirely.) -hpa