Re: missing entries in fsys.S

Stephane Eranian
2006-02-15T16:28:05Z

Ken,

On Wed, Feb 15, 2006 at 08:15:44AM -0800, Chen, Kenneth W wrote:
> Stephane Eranian wrote on Wednesday, February 15, 2006 6:34 AM
> > It appears that Linus's 2.6 git tree is missing some entryies in fsys.S.
> > I don't know abot your particular GIT tree. In any case, here is a patch
> > to fix this.
>
> That's what the .space directive is for when I added it a couple of weeks
> ago. It automatically fills in zero so lazy people like me can save a few
> key strokes. I guess the name __NR_syscall_last is not intuitive, it meant
> to be last_non_zero entry for fsys table.
>
Obviously, I missed that patch. I agree with you that it is tedious
to track new syscalls. Your trick is nice. I would certainly renamed
the syscall_last to NR_fsyscalls_lat or something like this.

Thanks.

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-Stephane