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Date:   Fri, 2 Dec 2022 15:39:46 -0300
From:   Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@kernel.org>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH] perf arm64: Fix mksyscalltbl, don't lose syscalls due to
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Em Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 02:56:31PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann escreveu:
> On Fri, Nov 25, 2022, at 13:54, Leo Yan wrote:
> > On Fri, Nov 25, 2022 at 12:53:10PM +0100, Vincent Whitchurch wrote:
> 
> >> It looks like this patch was never applied?  AFAICS it is still needed
> >> on current HEAD and it still applies cleanly.
> >
> > Thanks a lot for bringing up this.
> >
> > Before there have a discussion [1] for refactoring Arm64 system call
> > table but it didn't really happen.
> 
> I actually worked on this last week and did a new series to convert
> the old asm-generic/unistd.h header into the syscall.tbl format,
> and change arm64 to use that.
> 
> You can find my work in the 'syscall-tbl' branch of my asm-generic
> tree [1]. This has only seen light build testing so far, and is
> probably still buggy, but most of the work is there. The missing
> bits are the Makefiles for the other seven architectures using
> asm-generic/unistd.h, and checking the output to ensure the
> contents are still the same.
> 
> > I think it's the right thing to merge
> > this patch, @Arnaldo, could you pick up this patch?
> 
> That sounds fine to me.

Sure, and adding an Acked-by: Arnd
 
>     Arnd
> 
> [1] https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/arnd/asm-generic.git/

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- Arnaldo