[LTP] [PATCH] c-test-tutorial-simple.txt: improve documentation

Avinesh Kumar akumar@suse.de
Thu Jan 12 09:13:15 CET 2023


Hi Petr,

On Thursday, January 12, 2023 5:35:40 AM IST Petr Vorel wrote:
> Hi Avinesh,
> 
> > Signed-off-by: Avinesh Kumar <akumar@suse.de>
> > ---
> >  doc/c-test-tutorial-simple.txt | 12 ++++++------
> >  1 file changed, 6 insertions(+), 6 deletions(-)
> 
> > diff --git a/doc/c-test-tutorial-simple.txt b/doc/c-test-tutorial-simple.txt
> > index 89b0ad4e7..c5861cb36 100644
> > --- a/doc/c-test-tutorial-simple.txt
> > +++ b/doc/c-test-tutorial-simple.txt
> > @@ -333,16 +333,16 @@ call in the +*.in+ files (e.g. +x86_64.in+) which are used to generate
> >  may find the system call number is missing from the +*.in+ files and will need
> >  to add it (see +include/lapi/syscalls/strip_syscall.awk+).
> 
> > -System call numbers vary between architectures, hence why there are multiple
> > +System call numbers vary between architectures, hence there are multiple
> >  +*.in+ files for each architecture. You can find the various values for the
> > -+statx+ system call across a number of +uinstd.h+ files in the Linux kernel.
> > ++statx+ system call across a number of +unistd.h+ files in the Linux kernel.
> 
> >  Note that we don't use the system-call-identifier value available in
> > -+/usr/include/linux/uinstd.h+ because the kernel might be much newer than the
> > ++/include/uapi/linux/unistd.h+ because the kernel might be much newer than the
> NOTE: /include/uapi/linux/unistd.h does not exists. include/uapi/linux/unistd.h
> is relative path in kernel git tree. The same file exists as
> /usr/include/linux/unistd.h as part of kernel headers distro package.
> 
> I'd prefer to keep /usr/include/linux/unistd.h as a real path.
Thank you for your review and correcting this.

> 
> The other changes are good. Thank you for carefully reading docs and fixing
> them!
> 
> Reviewed-by: Petr Vorel <pvorel@suse.cz>
> 
> Kind regards,
> Petr
> 
> >  user land development packages.
> 
> > -For +statx+ we had to add +statx 332+ to +testcases/kernel/include/x86_64.in+,
> > -+statx 383+ to +testcases/kernel/include/powerpc.in+, etc.  Now lets look at
> > +For +statx+ we had to add +statx 332+ to +include/lapi/syscalls/x86_64.in+,
> > ++statx 383+ to +include/lapi/syscalls/powerpc.in+, etc.  Now lets look at
> >  the code, which I will explain in more detail further down.
> 
> >  [source,c]
> > @@ -1007,7 +1007,7 @@ We can then send this patch with the following command sans +--dry-run+.
> >  $ git send-email --dry-run output/v2-0001-tutorial-Add-a-step-by-step-C-test-tutorial.patch
> >  --------------------------------------------------------------------------------
> 
> > -Git will ask some questions (which you an ignore) and then tell you what it
> > +Git will ask some questions (which you can ignore) and then tell you what it
> >  would do if this weren't a dry-run. In order for this to work you have to have
> >  a valid SMTP server set in +.gitconfig+ and also be signed up to the LTP
> >  mailing list under the same e-mail address you have configured in Git. You can
> 

Regards,
Avinesh




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