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SubjectRe: rseq system call incompletely wired up in microblaze
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Hi Mathieu,

On 14.10.2018 18:46, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:
> Hi Michal,
>
> I notice the following commit went into 4.18:
>
> commit 54b0a2011dfcd2e3fe2c28062694fbbe3eb377a3
> Author: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
> Date: Thu Jun 14 08:24:39 2018 +0200
>
> microblaze: Add new syscalls io_pgetevents and rseq
>
> Wire up new syscalls io_pgetevents and rseq.
>
> Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@xilinx.com>
>
> It adds the rseq system call to the microblaze syscall list, but
> does not add the required hooks in the architecture code, nor does
> it select HAVE_RSEQ. So effectively, even though sys_rseq is reserved
> on microblaze, it currently always returns ENOSYS.
>
> Is your intent to simply reserve the system call number, or to
> also get rseq to work on microblaze ?

Yes. my indentation is allocate syscall numbers for all these new
syscalls because it takes some time when new syscalls numbers are
propagated to toolchain builds.
I can't see a problem if ENOSYS is returned because it is proper
reaction when syscall is not implemented.

Thanks,
Michal

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