Re: [PATCH] x86/syscalls: shrink entry/syscall_32.i via IWYU

From: Al Viro
Date: Wed Dec 27 2023 - 19:46:28 EST


On Wed, Dec 27, 2023 at 11:34:44PM +0000, Al Viro wrote:

> That's _it_. The same goes for syscall_64.c and syscall_x32.c.
> Oh, and lose the __visible/asmlinkage junk in there - none of that
> stuff is used from asm these days. See the patch below -
> Untested But Should Work(tm):

Unfortunately, there's this in kernel/trace/trace_syscalls.c:

unsigned long __init __weak arch_syscall_addr(int nr)
{
return (unsigned long)sys_call_table[nr];
}

How is that supposed to work for anything biarch? Including
amd64 with CONFIG_COMPAT enabled?

Confused...