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Subject: Re: [PATCH] Complain about missing system calls.
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On Fri, 2007-03-09 at 19:54 +0100, Andi Kleen wrote:
> > We need additional gunk for syscalls that can be called from SPEs on
> > cell
> 
> Can that gunk not be auto generated?
> 
> I know s390 does in some cases, but it looks quite auto generatable to me.

The system call tables and the compat wrapper are all manually created.
If we manage to get the prototypes for the system calls in a parseable
format at least the compat wrappers could be auto-generated. I see two
pitfalls: 1) some compat system calls are directly wired to the system
call table while others need the compat_wrapper detour, 2) override of
system calls with "meta" system calls like sys_socket or sys_ipc.

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