Re: [RFC PATCH 3/9] arm64: allocate sys_membarrier system call number

From: Mathieu Desnoyers
Date: Thu Sep 03 2015 - 11:39:30 EST




----- On Sep 2, 2015, at 6:10 AM, Will Deacon will.deacon@xxxxxxx wrote:

> On Thu, Aug 27, 2015 at 06:56:49PM +0100, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
>> arm64 sys_membarrier number is already wired for arm64 through
>> asm-generic/unistd.h, but needs to be allocated separately for
>> the 32-bit compability layer of arm64.
>>
>> [ Untested on this architecture. To try it out: fetch linux-next/akpm,
>> apply this patch, build/run a membarrier-enabled kernel, and do make
>> kselftest. ]
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: Andrew Morton <akpm@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>> CC: linux-api@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
>> CC: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@xxxxxxx>
>> CC: Will Deacon <will.deacon@xxxxxxx>
>> ---
>> arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h | 2 ++
>> 1 file changed, 2 insertions(+)
>>
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
>> b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
>> index cef934a..d97be80 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/include/asm/unistd32.h
>> @@ -797,3 +797,5 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_memfd_create, sys_memfd_create)
>> __SYSCALL(__NR_bpf, sys_bpf)
>> #define __NR_execveat 387
>> __SYSCALL(__NR_execveat, compat_sys_execveat)
>> +#define __NR_membarrier 388
>> +__SYSCALL(__NR_membarrier, sys_membarrier)
>
> I think people have made similar comments for other architectures, but
> please also updated __NR_compat_syscalls when adding new compat syscalls
> here.

Thanks for pointing it out! I'm fixing it for the next
RFC round.

Mathieu

>
> Will

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com
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