From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: linux@dominikbrodowski.net (Dominik Brodowski) Date: Mon, 14 May 2018 20:00:29 +0200 Subject: [PATCH 08/18] arm64: convert raw syscall invocation to C In-Reply-To: <20180514094640.27569-9-mark.rutland@arm.com> References: <20180514094640.27569-1-mark.rutland@arm.com> <20180514094640.27569-9-mark.rutland@arm.com> Message-ID: <20180514180029.GA23250@light.dominikbrodowski.net> To: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org List-Id: linux-arm-kernel.lists.infradead.org > +static void __invoke_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, syscall_fn_t syscall_fn) > +{ > + regs->regs[0] = syscall_fn(regs->regs[0], regs->regs[1], > + regs->regs[2], regs->regs[3], > + regs->regs[4], regs->regs[5]); > +} Any specific reason to have this in a separate function? This seems to be called only from one instance, namely > +asmlinkage void invoke_syscall(struct pt_regs *regs, int scno, int sc_nr, > + syscall_fn_t syscall_table[]) > +{ > + if (scno < sc_nr) { > + syscall_fn_t syscall_fn; > + syscall_fn = syscall_table[array_index_nospec(scno, sc_nr)]; > + __invoke_syscall(regs, syscall_fn); > + } else { > + regs->regs[0] = do_ni_syscall(regs); > + } > +} and result in a one-liner in the last patch of the series. Thanks, Dominik