From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: X-Spam-Checker-Version: SpamAssassin 3.4.0 (2014-02-07) on aws-us-west-2-korg-lkml-1.web.codeaurora.org X-Spam-Level: X-Spam-Status: No, score=-4.2 required=3.0 tests=BAYES_00,DKIM_SIGNED, DKIM_VALID,DKIM_VALID_AU,FREEMAIL_FORGED_FROMDOMAIN,FREEMAIL_FROM, HEADER_FROM_DIFFERENT_DOMAINS,MAILING_LIST_MULTI,SPF_HELO_NONE,SPF_PASS, URIBL_BLOCKED,USER_AGENT_SANE_1 autolearn=no autolearn_force=no version=3.4.0 Received: from mail.kernel.org (mail.kernel.org [198.145.29.99]) by smtp.lore.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 71730C433ED for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 19:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: from vger.kernel.org (vger.kernel.org [23.128.96.18]) by mail.kernel.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 3E6DE613C4 for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 19:25:21 +0000 (UTC) Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S231527AbhEMT03 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2021 15:26:29 -0400 Received: from lindbergh.monkeyblade.net ([23.128.96.19]:52880 "EHLO lindbergh.monkeyblade.net" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S230104AbhEMT03 (ORCPT ); Thu, 13 May 2021 15:26:29 -0400 Received: from mail-wr1-x430.google.com (mail-wr1-x430.google.com [IPv6:2a00:1450:4864:20::430]) by lindbergh.monkeyblade.net (Postfix) with ESMTPS id 06C9DC061574 for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 12:25:19 -0700 (PDT) Received: by mail-wr1-x430.google.com with SMTP id l14so27920054wrx.5 for ; Thu, 13 May 2021 12:25:18 -0700 (PDT) DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=gmail.com; s=20161025; h=to:cc:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent:mime-version :content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9+aa2S7LzcJdXBmIuViuX+TMUrHB28+7j1ipQundgHE=; b=tD+Pz3WiK9xNLeUbB9OKwoh1RfJ1KRSjE1Zr1ZouoBrA9wJsO2UFBrvG1CIjN+QEsB nPXmwhLeZDeT/L0FfEC2tSMLhtJAowx6hEw5ctz8Bk9PMNnFNEoWV0edXE2zgVUFKjRy JNYk6p7VqEdLlT0P1oiXH1AbebWe45Flo2qBm9nGYgPaptjmvZEqfh962+vt2q3aLwen h3j9LycZ1VEeDx/TEx678I9X0cvEKLJXcTIKf07GLjj3Y1E4tuginkjTzIi2jxZrU5In ifxxeawg3L0mxPC+ejli9G5h8oQf88uZxcL7xpMWCLPzwTPZNF2UWRS1qSGpzUjl7tEe 7XeA== X-Google-DKIM-Signature: v=1; a=rsa-sha256; c=relaxed/relaxed; d=1e100.net; s=20161025; h=x-gm-message-state:to:cc:from:subject:message-id:date:user-agent :mime-version:content-language:content-transfer-encoding; bh=9+aa2S7LzcJdXBmIuViuX+TMUrHB28+7j1ipQundgHE=; b=Jy5KTLKMlS6drtZ535b7NsaWtnyo9wnJnVxRpY704Dh76QYvh+MWSsSstko0zxfmc5 uYhWAAUB3zEoD9nxLOnm0+/kUzWm1t8RwBnfFhAocbRkYXopxkc+k75mEyphcx7QtIas m/C6WLWNLg6esFHZ9KT4xX7UkfCEavEE5KSYAVUWABe/9hc3mpGCCSA5dqGE1CoSVHUW PHOqJk9i7ioMKm+PeBR2qNvj+AuDmkFzMUuRf7cuf/fNPCyZSE7585QIRB5RiR1imcJE OiS3tBLyY9Qwiwo4i2Yk+8p9ZZrWwsqZOuC1Jb2DWuHUP3jueKDm5uA3mSjWgWzNThGU vdJQ== X-Gm-Message-State: AOAM533BPI6fPM9Xdpo081U6AAdj99FKIe/wBN4rXrAHdUbHjdguyCNc UwB8kcO66rRELBm3HSkTNtCRUgndwfg= X-Google-Smtp-Source: ABdhPJwvUK1uCD07y+TcSJjLQGbUZ0VzLgLfDXmHM3PYIkHDhtO+5YASFf6krl9UcTbS4T4YDhdakg== X-Received: by 2002:adf:e9cf:: with SMTP id l15mr44305076wrn.209.1620933917779; Thu, 13 May 2021 12:25:17 -0700 (PDT) Received: from [192.168.1.143] ([170.253.56.53]) by smtp.gmail.com with ESMTPSA id d9sm3771501wrp.47.2021.05.13.12.25.16 (version=TLS1_3 cipher=TLS_AES_128_GCM_SHA256 bits=128/128); Thu, 13 May 2021 12:25:17 -0700 (PDT) To: "Michael Kerrisk (man-pages)" Cc: linux-man From: "Alejandro Colomar (man-pages)" Subject: system calls not intended for user space Message-ID: Date: Thu, 13 May 2021 21:25:16 +0200 User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:78.0) Gecko/20100101 Thunderbird/78.10.0 MIME-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=utf-8; format=flowed Content-Language: en-US Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-man@vger.kernel.org Hello Michael, There are some syscalls that are not intended to be used from user space. See restart_syscall(2). Should I document those as syscall(SYS_...) or not? How are they called within the kernel? As sys_restart_syscall()? Thanks, Alex -- Alejandro Colomar Linux man-pages comaintainer; https://www.kernel.org/doc/man-pages/ http://www.alejandro-colomar.es/