Re: [PATCH v2 29/29] y2038: add 64-bit time_t syscalls to all 32-bit architectures

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 6:08 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> wrote:
> On Mon, Jan 21, 2019 at 9:19 AM Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Regardless, I'm wondering what to do with the holes marked "room for
> > arch specific calls".
> > When is a syscall really arch-specific, and can it be added there, and
> > when does it turn out (later) that it isn't, breaking the
> > synchronization again?
>
> We've had a bit of that already, with cacheflush(), which exists on
> a couple of architectures, including some that use the first
> 'arch specific' slot (244) of the asm-generic table. I think this
> will be rare enough that we can figure out a solution when we
> get there.
>
> > The pkey syscalls may be a bad example, as AFAIU they can be implemented
> > on some architectures, but not on some others.  Still, I had skipped them
> > when adding new syscalls to m68k.
> >
> > Perhaps we should get rid of the notion of "arch-specific syscalls", and
> > reserve a slot everywhere anyway?
>
> I don't mind calling the hole something else if that helps. Out of
> principle I would already assume that anything we add for x86
> or the generic table should be added everywhere, but we can
> make it broader than that.

Applying this fixup below,

     ARnd

diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
index d9c2d2eea044..955ab6a3b61f 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
@@ -398,7 +398,7 @@
 384    i386    arch_prctl              sys_arch_prctl
 __ia32_compat_sys_arch_prctl
 385    i386    io_pgetevents           sys_io_pgetevents_time32
 __ia32_compat_sys_io_pgetevents
 386    i386    rseq                    sys_rseq
 __ia32_sys_rseq
-# room for arch specific syscalls
+# don't use numbers 387 through 392, add new calls at the end
 393    i386    semget                  sys_semget
 __ia32_sys_semget
 394    i386    semctl                  sys_semctl
 __ia32_compat_sys_semctl
 395    i386    shmget                  sys_shmget
 __ia32_sys_shmget
diff --git a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
index 43a622aec07e..2ae92fddb6d5 100644
--- a/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
+++ b/arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
@@ -343,6 +343,8 @@
 332    common  statx                   __x64_sys_statx
 333    common  io_pgetevents           __x64_sys_io_pgetevents
 334    common  rseq                    __x64_sys_rseq
+# don't use numbers 387 through 423, add new calls after the last
+# 'common' entry

 #
 # x32-specific system call numbers start at 512 to avoid cache impact
diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
index 53831e4a4c86..acf9a07ab2ff 100644
--- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
+++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
@@ -740,7 +740,7 @@ __SC_COMP_3264(__NR_io_pgetevents,
sys_io_pgetevents_time32, sys_io_pgetevents,
 __SYSCALL(__NR_rseq, sys_rseq)
 #define __NR_kexec_file_load 294
 __SYSCALL(__NR_kexec_file_load,     sys_kexec_file_load)
-/* 295 through 402 are unassigned to sync up with generic numbers */
+/* 295 through 402 are unassigned to sync up with generic numbers, don't use */
 #if __BITS_PER_LONG == 32
 #define __NR_clock_gettime64 403
 __SYSCALL(__NR_clock_gettime64, sys_clock_gettime)