From: "Nicholas Piggin" <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: "Rohan McLure" <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>, <linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v4 01/20] powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions
Date: Mon, 12 Sep 2022 18:20:40 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <CMU9YPK896PV.9YUXVUNC7XGJ@bobo> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20220824020548.62625-2-rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
On Wed Aug 24, 2022 at 12:05 PM AEST, Rohan McLure wrote:
> The asmlinkage macro has no special meaning in powerpc, and prior to
> this patch is used sporadically on some syscall handler definitions. On
> architectures that do not define asmlinkage, it resolves to extern "C"
> for C++ compilers and a nop otherwise. The current invocations of
> asmlinkage provide far from complete support for C++ toolchains, and so
> the macro serves no purpose in powerpc.
>
> Remove all invocations of asmlinkage in arch/powerpc. These incidentally
> only occur in syscall definitions and prototypes.
>
> Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2022-09-12 8:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 53+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2022-08-24 2:05 [PATCH v4 00/20] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 01/20] powerpc: Remove asmlinkage from syscall handler definitions Rohan McLure
2022-08-25 7:04 ` Andrew Donnellan
2022-09-12 8:20 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 02/20] powerpc: Use generic fallocate compatibility syscall Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 8:38 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-12 9:57 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-09-12 11:00 ` Christophe Leroy
2022-09-12 11:07 ` Arnd Bergmann
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 03/20] powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:03 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 4:36 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 04/20] powerpc: Provide do_ppc64_personality helper Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 05/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to personality syscall handler Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 06/20] powerpc: Remove direct call to mmap2 syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 9:47 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 5:06 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 07/20] powerpc: Adopt SYSCALL_DEFINE for arch-specific " Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:04 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 08/20] powerpc: Include all arch-specific syscall prototypes Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:33 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-13 7:09 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 09/20] powerpc: Enable compile-time check for syscall handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-13 2:29 ` Michael Ellerman
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 10/20] powerpc: Use common syscall handler type Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 10:56 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 5:45 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 1:02 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 11/20] powerpc: Add ZEROIZE_GPRS macros for register clears Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:09 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 5:47 ` Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 12/20] Revert "powerpc/syscall: Save r3 in regs->orig_r3" Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:14 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 13/20] powerpc: Provide syscall wrapper Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 14/20] powerpc/64s: Clear/restore caller gprs in syscall interrupt/return Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:47 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 15/20] powerpc/64s: Use {ZEROIZE,SAVE,REST}_GPRS macros in sc, scv 0 handlers Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:49 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 16/20] powerpc/32: Clarify interrupt restores with REST_GPR macro in entry_32.S Rohan McLure
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 17/20] powerpc/64e: Clarify register saves and clears with {SAVE,ZEROIZE}_GPRS Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 12:17 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 18/20] powerpc/64s: Fix comment on interrupt handler prologue Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 11:51 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 19/20] powerpc/64s: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry in Book3S Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 12:15 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-09-15 6:55 ` Rohan McLure
2022-09-16 0:43 ` Nicholas Piggin
2022-08-24 2:05 ` [PATCH v4 20/20] powerpc/64e: Clear gprs on interrupt routine entry Rohan McLure
2022-09-12 0:55 ` [PATCH v4 00/20] powerpc: Syscall wrapper and register clearing Rohan McLure
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