[PATCH v4 3/5] arch: Register fchmodat2, usually as syscall 452

Christian Brauner brauner at kernel.org
Thu Jul 27 20:37:58 AEST 2023


On Wed, Jul 26, 2023 at 02:43:41AM +1000, Aleksa Sarai wrote:
> On 2023-07-11, Alexey Gladkov <legion at kernel.org> wrote:
> > From: Palmer Dabbelt <palmer at sifive.com>
> > 
> > This registers the new fchmodat2 syscall in most places as nuber 452,
> > with alpha being the exception where it's 562.  I found all these sites
> > by grepping for fspick, which I assume has found me everything.
> 
> Shouldn't this patch be squashed with the patch that adds the syscall?
> At least, that's how I've usually seen it done...

Depends. Iirc, someone said they'd prefer for doing it in one patch
in some circumstances on some system call we added years ago. But otoh,
having the syscall wiring done separately makes it easy for arch
maintainers to ack only the wiring up part. Both ways are valid imho.
(cachestat() did it for x86 and then all the others separately. So
really it seems a bit all over the place depending on the scenario.)


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