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Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall

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  Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> - 2017-03-15 23:30 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2017-03-16 10:50 +0100

#1601783 — Re: [PATCH v2] generic syscalls: Wire up statx syscall

On 13 March 2017 at 14:45, Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> wrote:
> The new syscall statx is implemented as generic code, so enable it
> for architectures like openrisc which use the generic syscall table.
>
> Fixes: a528d35e8bfcc ("statx: Add a system call to make enhanced file info available")
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>
> Cc: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
> Cc: David Howells <dhowells@redhat.com>
> Cc: Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
> Cc: Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
> Cc: linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
> Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com>
> ---
> Change in v2:
>  - Add a few more Cc's to get attention of the right people
>  - Add a fixes tag for better audit
>
>  include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 4 +++-
>  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> index 9b1462e..a076cf1 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> @@ -730,9 +730,11 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_pkey_mprotect, sys_pkey_mprotect)
>  __SYSCALL(__NR_pkey_alloc,    sys_pkey_alloc)
>  #define __NR_pkey_free 290
>  __SYSCALL(__NR_pkey_free,     sys_pkey_free)
> +#define __NR_statx 291
> +__SYSCALL(__NR_statx,     sys_statx)
>
>  #undef __NR_syscalls
> -#define __NR_syscalls 291
> +#define __NR_syscalls 292

Out of interest, anybody know OTOH which other stat syscalls statx
supersedes (such that they could at some point be disabled by default
in asm-generic for new arches, and implemented in userspace)?

Cheers
-- 
James Hogan

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#1602139

On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 11:26 PM, James Hogan <james.hogan@imgtec.com> wrote:
> On 13 March 2017 at 14:45, Stafford Horne <shorne@gmail.com> wrote:

>>  #undef __NR_syscalls
>> -#define __NR_syscalls 291
>> +#define __NR_syscalls 292
>
> Out of interest, anybody know OTOH which other stat syscalls statx
> supersedes (such that they could at some point be disabled by default
> in asm-generic for new arches, and implemented in userspace)?

It should replace the entire stat family {old,new,}{f,}stat{at,}{64,}, but not
the {f,}statfs{64,} family, which will eventually get another replacement.

      Arnd

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