linux/arch
Al Viro fa1b4f91d6 [ARM] safer handling of syscall table padding
ARM entry-common.S needs to know syscall table size; in itself that would
not be a problem, but there's an additional constraint - some of the
instructions using it want a constant that would be a multiple of 4.
So we have to pad syscall table with sys_ni_syscall and that's where
the trouble begins.  .rept pseudo-op wants a constant expression for
number of repetitions and subtraction of two labels (before and after
syscall table) doesn't always get simplified to constant early enough
for .rept.  If labels end up in different frags, we lose.  And while
the frag size is large enough (slightly below 4Kb), the syscall table
is about 1/3 of that.  We used to get away with that, but the recent
changes had been enough to trigger the breakage.

Proper fix is simple: have a macro (CALL(x)) to populate the table
instead of using explicit .long x and the first time we include calls.S
have it defined to .equ NR_syscalls,NR_syscalls+1.  Then we can find
the proper amount of padding on the first inclusion simply by looking
at NR_syscalls at that time.  And that will be constant, no matter what.

Moreover, the same trick kills the need of having an estimate of padded
NR_syscalls - it will be calculated for free at the same time.

Signed-off-by: Al Viro <viro@zeniv.linux.org.uk>
Signed-off-by: Russell King <rmk+kernel@arm.linux.org.uk>
2006-01-19 12:57:01 +00:00
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alpha [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
arm [ARM] safer handling of syscall table padding 2006-01-19 12:57:01 +00:00
arm26 [PATCH] arm26: s/task_threas_info/task_thread_info/ 2006-01-16 23:15:27 -08:00
cris [PATCH] cris: task_thread_info() 2006-01-12 09:08:58 -08:00
frv [PATCH] Handle TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK for FRV 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
h8300 [PATCH] h8300: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
i386 [PATCH] EDAC: core EDAC support code 2006-01-18 19:20:31 -08:00
ia64 [PATCH] e1000: Added disable packet split capability 2006-01-18 16:17:57 -05:00
m32r [PATCH] m32r: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page(), task_thread_info() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
m68k [PATCH] m68k: console code in head.S needs framebuffer support built in 2006-01-12 09:09:06 -08:00
m68knommu [PATCH] m68knommu: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:55 -08:00
mips [PATCH] mips: add pm_power_off 2006-01-16 23:15:26 -08:00
parisc [PATCH] e1000: Added disable packet split capability 2006-01-18 16:17:57 -05:00
powerpc [PATCH] TIF_RESTORE_SIGMASK support for arch/powerpc 2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
ppc [PATCH] e1000: Added disable packet split capability 2006-01-18 16:17:57 -05:00
s390 [PATCH] s390: cputime misaccounting 2006-01-14 18:27:09 -08:00
sh [PATCH] sh: Move CPU subtype configuration to its own Kconfig 2006-01-16 23:15:28 -08:00
sh64 [PATCH] sh64: task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:57 -08:00
sparc [SPARC]: change if() BUG(); to BUG_ON in iommu.c 2006-01-17 15:36:05 -08:00
sparc64 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: core 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
um [PATCH] uml: use generic sys_rt_sigsuspend 2006-01-18 19:20:30 -08:00
v850 [PATCH] v850: task_stack_page(), task_pt_regs() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00
x86_64 [PATCH] vfs: *at functions: x86_64 2006-01-18 19:20:29 -08:00
xtensa [PATCH] xtensa: task_pt_regs(), task_stack_page() 2006-01-12 09:08:54 -08:00