Re: [v6,1/5] powerpc: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls

[Michael Ellerman]

On Mon, 2018-12-17 at 10:40:32 UTC, Firoz Khan wrote:
> NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist
> in powerpc architecture. We have to change the value of
> NR_syscalls, if we add or delete a system call.
> 
> One of the patch in this patch series has a script which
> will generate a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file.
> The syscall.tbl file contains the number of system call
> information. So we have two option to update NR_syscalls
> value.
> 
> 1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by count-
>    ing the no.of system calls. No need to update NR_sys-
>    calls until we either add a new system call or delete
>    existing system call.
> 
> 2. We can keep this feature in above mentioned script,
>    that will count the number of syscalls and keep it in
>    a generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
>    citly update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.
> 
> The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
> added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h along
> with NR_syscalls asm/unistd.h. The macro __NR_syscalls
> also added for making the name convention same across all
> architecture. While __NR_syscalls isn't strictly part of
> the uapi, having it as part of the generated header to
> simplifies the implementation. We also need to enclose
> this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@xxxxxxxxxx>

Series applied to powerpc next, thanks.

https://git.kernel.org/powerpc/c/8a19eeeab66dfdd7c67bc8e3048ac0

cheers