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    parisc: add __NR_syscalls along with __NR_Linux_syscalls · dbf91a54
    Firoz Khan authored
    __NR_Linux_syscalls macro holds the number of system call
    exist in parisc architecture. We have to change the value
    of __NR_Linux_syscalls, if we add or delete a system call.
    
    One of the patch in this patch series has a script which
    will generate a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file.
    The syscall.tbl file contains the total number of system
    calls information. So we have two option to update __NR-
    _Linux_syscalls value.
    
    1. Update __NR_Linux_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by
       counting the no.of system calls. No need to update __NR-
       _Linux_syscalls until we either add a new system call or
       delete existing system call.
    
    2. We can keep this feature it above mentioned script,
       that will count the number of syscalls and keep it in
       a generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
       citly update __NR_Linux_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.
    
    The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
    added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h along
    with __NR_Linux_syscalls asm/unistd.h. The macro __NR_sys-
    calls also added for making the name convention same across
    all architecture. While __NR_syscalls isn't strictly part
    of the uapi, having it as part of the generated header to
    simplifies the implementation. We also need to enclose
    this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.
    Signed-off-by: default avatarFiroz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
    Acked-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarHelge Deller <deller@gmx.de>
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