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Most of architectures generate syscall headers at the compile time in a similar way. The syscall table has the same format for all architectures. Each line has up to 5 fields; syscall number, ABI, syscall name, native entry point, and compat entry point. The syscall table is processed by syscalltbl.sh script into header files. Despite the same pattern, scripts are maintained per architecture, which results in code duplication and bad maintainability. As of v5.11-rc1, 12 architectures duplicate similar shell scripts: $ find arch -name syscalltbl.sh | sort arch/alpha/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/arm/tools/syscalltbl.sh arch/ia64/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/m68k/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/microblaze/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/mips/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/parisc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/sh/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/sparc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/x86/entry/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh arch/xtensa/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh My goal is to unify them into scripts/syscalltbl.sh. __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT should be defined as follows: 32-bit kernel: #define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, native, compat) __SYSCALL(nr, native) 64-bit kernel: #define __SYSCALL_WITH_COMPAT(nr, native, compat) __SYSCALL(nr, compat) Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@kernel.org>
Linux kernel
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There are several guides for kernel developers and users. These guides can
be rendered in a number of formats, like HTML and PDF. Please read
Documentation/admin-guide/README.rst first.
In order to build the documentation, use ``make htmldocs`` or
``make pdfdocs``. The formatted documentation can also be read online at:
https://www.kernel.org/doc/html/latest/
There are various text files in the Documentation/ subdirectory,
several of them using the Restructured Text markup notation.
Please read the Documentation/process/changes.rst file, as it contains the
requirements for building and running the kernel, and information about
the problems which may result by upgrading your kernel.