Re: [PATCH v1 6/7] DCE/DSE: riscv: add HAVE_TRIM_UNUSED_SYSCALLS support

[Arnd Bergmann]

On Tue, Sep 26, 2023, at 00:42, Zhangjin Wu wrote:
> For HAVE_TRIM_UNUSED_SYSCALLS, the syscall tables are hacked with the
> inputing unused_syscalls.
>
> Firstly, the intermediate preprocessed .i files are generated from the
> original C version of syscall tables respectively, and named with a
> 'used' suffix: syscall_table_used.i, compat_syscall_table_used.i.
>
> Secondly, all of the unused syscalls are commented.
>
> At last, two new objective files sufixed with 'used' are generated from
> the hacked .i files and they are linked into the eventual kernel image.
>
> Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@xxxxxxxxxxx>

As mentioned in my comment on the mips patch, hacking the preprocessed
file here is too much strain on the old infrastructure, the
asm-generic/unistd.h file is already too hard to understand for
anyone and in need of an overhaul, so let's work together on fixing
it up first.

      Arnd