Re: [PATCH v2 14/29] arch: add pkey and rseq syscall numbers everywhere

Geert Uytterhoeven
2019-01-21T08:56:06Z

On Fri, Jan 18, 2019 at 5:20 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
> Most architectures define system call numbers for the rseq and pkey system
> calls, even when they don't support the features, and perhaps never will.
>
> Only a few architectures are missing these, so just define them anyway
> for consistency. If we decide to add them later to one of these, the
> system call numbers won't get out of sync then.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>

> arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 4 ++++

> --- a/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> +++ b/arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscall.tbl
> @@ -388,6 +388,10 @@
> 378 common pwritev2 sys_pwritev2
> 379 common statx sys_statx
> 380 common seccomp sys_seccomp
> +381 common pkey_alloc sys_pkey_alloc
> +382 common pkey_free sys_pkey_free
> +383 common pkey_mprotect sys_pkey_mprotect
> +384 common rseq sys_rseq

Note that all architectures that already define pkey syscalls, list
pkey_mprotect
first.

Regardless, for m68k:
Acked-by: Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>

> # room for arch specific calls
> 393 common semget sys_semget
> 394 common semctl sys_semctl

Gr{oetje,eeting}s,

Geert

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