Re: deconflicting new syscall numbers for 6.11

Linus Torvalds
2024-07-04T22:07:50Z

On Thu, 4 Jul 2024 at 14:45, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote:
>
> It's not random, it's all the architectures: the ones that
> don't have a syscall.tbl file are the ones that use the table
> in include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h.

Ok.

I think it's bogus to reseve system calls for everybody even when it
makes no sense.

But it's also pretty moot, since I think the whole system call has to go away.

All it is is an odd wrapper around mmap() anyway, and it's a useful
enough thing *outside* of getrandom() that I pretty much guarantee it
will be used for other things than vgetrandom anyway.

Linus