user/sven/linux.git/Documentation/process/adding-syscalls.rst, branch v4.19.269

syscalls/core, syscalls/x86: Clean up compat syscall stub naming convention

2018-04-09T14:47:28Z

Tidy the naming convention for compat syscall subs. Hints which describe the purpose of the stub go in front and receive a double underscore to denote that they are generated on-the-fly by the COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() macro. For the generic case, this means: t kernel_waitid # common C function (see kernel/exit.c) __do_compat_sys_waitid # inlined helper doing the actual work # (takes original parameters as declared) T __se_compat_sys_waitid # sign-extending C function calling inlined # helper (takes parameters of type long, # casts them to unsigned long and then to # the declared type) T compat_sys_waitid # alias to __se_compat_sys_waitid() # (taking parameters as declared), to # be included in syscall table For x86, the naming is as follows: t kernel_waitid # common C function (see kernel/exit.c) __do_compat_sys_waitid # inlined helper doing the actual work # (takes original parameters as declared) t __se_compat_sys_waitid # sign-extending C function calling inlined # helper (takes parameters of type long, # casts them to unsigned long and then to # the declared type) T __ia32_compat_sys_waitid # IA32_EMULATION 32-bit-ptregs -> C stub, # calls __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be # included in syscall table T __x32_compat_sys_waitid # x32 64-bit-ptregs -> C stub, calls # __se_compat_sys_waitid(); to be included # in syscall table If only one of IA32_EMULATION and x32 is enabled, __se_compat_sys_waitid() may be inlined into the stub __{ia32,x32}_compat_sys_waitid(). Suggested-by: Ingo Molnar Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski Cc: Al Viro Cc: Andrew Morton Cc: Andy Lutomirski Cc: Borislav Petkov Cc: Brian Gerst Cc: Denys Vlasenko Cc: Josh Poimboeuf Cc: Linus Torvalds Cc: Peter Zijlstra Cc: Thomas Gleixner Link: http://lkml.kernel.org/r/20180409105145.5364-3-linux@dominikbrodowski.net Signed-off-by: Ingo Molnar

kernel/sys_ni: remove {sys_,sys_compat} from cond_syscall definitions

2018-04-02T18:16:20Z

This keeps it in line with the SYSCALL_DEFINEx() / COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() calling convention. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel

2018-03-25T16:08:51Z

The syscall entry points to the kernel defined by SYSCALL_DEFINEx() and COMPAT_SYSCALL_DEFINEx() should only be called from userspace through kernel entry points, but not from the kernel itself. This will allow cleanups and optimizations to the entry paths *and* to the parts of the kernel code which currently need to pretend to be userspace in order to make use of syscalls. Signed-off-by: Dominik Brodowski

docs: fix locations of several documents that got moved

2016-10-24T10:12:35Z

The previous patch renamed several files that are cross-referenced along the Kernel documentation. Adjust the links to point to the right places. Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab

docs-rst: add documents to development-process

2016-10-24T10:12:35Z

Add several documents to the development-process ReST book. As we don't want renames, use symlinks instead, keeping those documents on their original place. Acked-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman Signed-off-by: Mauro Carvalho Chehab