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SubjectRe: set_thread_area.2: csky architecture undocumented
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Hi Alex,

On 11/23/20 10:31 PM, Alejandro Colomar (man-pages) wrote:
> Hi Michael,
>
> SYNOPSIS
> #include <linux/unistd.h>
>
> #if defined __i386__ || defined __x86_64__
> # include <asm/ldt.h>
>
> int get_thread_area(struct user_desc *u_info);
> int set_thread_area(struct user_desc *u_info);
>
> #elif defined __m68k__
>
> int get_thread_area(void);
> int set_thread_area(unsigned long tp);
>
> #elif defined __mips__
>
> int set_thread_area(unsigned long addr);
>
> #endif
>
> Note: There are no glibc wrappers for these system calls; see
> NOTES.
>
>
> $ grep -rn 'SYSCALL_DEFINE.*et_thread_area'
> arch/csky/kernel/syscall.c:6:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, unsigned long, addr)
> arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c:86:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, unsigned long, addr)
> arch/x86/kernel/tls.c:191:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, u_info)
> arch/x86/kernel/tls.c:243:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(get_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, u_info)
> arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:277:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(set_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, user_desc)
> arch/x86/um/tls_32.c:325:
> SYSCALL_DEFINE1(get_thread_area, struct user_desc __user *, user_desc)
>
>
> See kernel commit 4859bfca11c7d63d55175bcd85a75d6cee4b7184
>
>
> I'd change
> - #elif defined __mips__
> + #elif defined(__mips__ || __csky__)
>
> and then change the rest of the text to add csky when appropriate.
> Am I correct?

AFAICT, you are correct. I think the reason that csky is missing is
that the architecture was added after this manual pages was added.

Thanks,

Michael


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