Commit dd58e649 authored by André Almeida's avatar André Almeida Committed by Jonathan Corbet

docs: Make syscalls' helpers naming consistent

The documentation explains the need to create internal syscalls' helpers,
and that they should be called `kern_xyzzy()`. However, the comment at
include/linux/syscalls.h says that they should be named as
`ksys_xyzzy()`, and so are all the helpers declared bellow it. Change the
documentation to reflect this.

Fixes: 819671ff ("syscalls: define and explain goal to not call syscalls in the kernel")
Signed-off-by: default avatarAndré Almeida <andrealmeid@collabora.com>
Reviewed-by: default avatarDominik Brodowski <linux@dominikbrodowski.net>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20210130014547.123006-1-andrealmeid@collabora.comSigned-off-by: default avatarJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
parent 26606ce0
......@@ -501,7 +501,7 @@ table, but not from elsewhere in the kernel. If the syscall functionality is
useful to be used within the kernel, needs to be shared between an old and a
new syscall, or needs to be shared between a syscall and its compatibility
variant, it should be implemented by means of a "helper" function (such as
``kern_xyzzy()``). This kernel function may then be called within the
``ksys_xyzzy()``). This kernel function may then be called within the
syscall stub (``sys_xyzzy()``), the compatibility syscall stub
(``compat_sys_xyzzy()``), and/or other kernel code.
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