[LTP] [PATCH 0/4] Automatically generate syscalls.h

[Jan Stancek]

On Tue, Sep 24, 2024 at 10:46 AM Andrea Cervesato via ltp
<ltp@lists.linux.it> wrote:
>
> Hi!
>
> Please consider this patchset as a draft open for discussion.

Have you compared old and new defines? Are there any differences
(other than additions)?

>
> Andrea
>
> On 9/24/24 10:06, Andrea Cervesato wrote:
> > The problem we have at the moment is that all syscalls input files must
> > be changed by hand each time we need to test a new syscall. The idea is
> > to simplify this process, providing a script that is able to read from
> > kernel sources and to generate all syscalls files we need.
> >
> > This is done by the generate_syscalls.sh script that can be used as
> > following:
> >
> > ./generate_syscalls.sh path/to/kernel/source path/to/syscalls.h
> >
> > This approach requires a certain type of attention, due to the fact that
> > we need to generate syscalls.h at each kernel version, or when new
> > syscalls have been added in the kernel.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Andrea Cervesato <andrea.cervesato@suse.com>
> > ---
> > Andrea Cervesato (4):
> >        Rename syscalls order file to supported-arch.txt
> >        Add script to generate syscalls.h
> >        Deprecate old syscalls input files
> >        Save syscalls.h inside repo
> >
> >   include/lapi/.gitignore                            |     1 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls.h                            | 34272 +++++++++++++++++++
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/aarch64.in                   |   306 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/arc.in                       |   325 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/arm.in                       |   404 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/blacklist-syscalls.txt       |     6 +
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/generate_syscalls.sh         |   292 +
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/hppa.in                      |    52 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/i386.in                      |   439 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/ia64.in                      |   956 +-
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/loongarch.in                 |   310 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/mips_n32.in                  |   379 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/mips_n64.in                  |   355 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/mips_o32.in                  |   425 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/powerpc.in                   |   432 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/powerpc64.in                 |   432 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/regen.sh                     |   129 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/s390.in                      |   419 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/s390x.in                     |   367 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/sh.in                        |   413 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/sparc.in                     |   418 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/sparc64.in                   |   383 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/strip_syscall.awk            |    19 -
> >   .../lapi/syscalls/{order => supported-arch.txt}    |     1 -
> >   include/lapi/syscalls/x86_64.in                    |   396 -
> >   25 files changed, 35174 insertions(+), 6757 deletions(-)
> > ---
> > base-commit: 968e6245d93bc91723e72086a71e6bc50f495d0b
> > change-id: 20240923-generate_syscalls-780dc2227bdb
> >
> > Best regards,
>
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