Re: [PATCH 2/4] Add NR_syscalls for x86_64

[Frederic Weisbecker <fweisbec@gmail.com>]

On Tue, Aug 25, 2009 at 04:58:29PM -0400, Jason Baron wrote:
> > Ugh! My eyes hurt!
> 
> sorry :)
> 
> > What you are doing here is to basically put back the hardcoded
> > NR_syscalls rather that using the build infrastructure already in place.
> > 
> 
> no. NR_syscalls is not hardcoded by this patch. Its defined in terms of
> __NR_syscall_max which is dynamically generated by the kernel build.
> 
> > If my memory serves me well, unistd_64.h generates __NR_syscall_max
> > automatically by being included multiples times. Can we generalize this
> > and make the information generated available in an automaticaly
> > generated header instead ? It is saved in ams-offsets.h currently as
> > "__NR_syscall_max". We could also save it somewhere else meant to be
> > included by C code.
> > 
> > Mathieu
> > 
> 
> The request was to define NR_syscalls in unistd.h, since that is the
> historical Linux location for it. Adding another automatically generated
> header does not accomplish that. Even if I include that new file in
> unistd.h, I'm still going to have a circular dependency, and require a
> solution similar to what I've proposed.
> 
> thanks,
> 
> -Jason


Hmm, yeah that's not easy to deal with.

May be, to lower a bit the hacky impact of this patch, __NR_syscall_max
should be at least replaced by NR_syscall in every x86-64 uses (also in
asm-offsets.h), to standardize this variable name.

Also, may be we could have an empty asm-offsets.h stub in the very beginning
that can be filled later so that we could include it unconditionnaly from
unistd_64.h ?

It would be nice to have the opinion of an x86 maintainer about what to do.