Re: [PATCH v10 2/4] arch: allocate vgetrandom_alloc() syscall number

From: Jason A. Donenfeld
Date: Wed Nov 30 2022 - 05:07:01 EST


Hi Geert,

On Wed, Nov 30, 2022 at 09:56:06AM +0100, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> Hi Jason,
>
> On Tue, Nov 29, 2022 at 10:09 PM Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> > Add vgetrandom_alloc() as syscall 451 (or 561 on alpha) by adding it to
> > all of the various syscall.tbl and unistd.h files.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Jason A. Donenfeld <Jason@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Thanks for your patch!
>
> What's the policy regarding adding syscall numbers for VDSO-related
> syscalls on architectures that do not support VDSOs yet?

I don't know exactly what the /policy/ is, but not wanting to rock the
boat, the first iterations of this series only added it to x86. But then
Arnd joined the thread and said I should add it to all of them all at
once and separate that out into this commit, so that's what we have
here. I think the idea is to keep syscall numbers synchronized these
days between archs if possible.

Jason