[PATCH 12/14] tools/perf: Update tools's copy of powerpc syscall table

Namhyung Kim namhyung at kernel.org
Wed Nov 22 09:56:47 AEDT 2023


tldr; Just FYI, I'm carrying this on the perf tools tree.

Full explanation:

There used to be no copies, with tools/ code using kernel headers
directly. From time to time tools/perf/ broke due to legitimate kernel
hacking. At some point Linus complained about such direct usage. Then we
adopted the current model.

The way these headers are used in perf are not restricted to just
including them to compile something.

There are sometimes used in scripts that convert defines into string
tables, etc, so some change may break one of these scripts, or new MSRs
may use some different #define pattern, etc.

E.g.:

  $ ls -1 tools/perf/trace/beauty/*.sh | head -5
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/arch_errno_names.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/drm_ioctl.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsconfig.sh
  tools/perf/trace/beauty/fsmount.sh
  $
  $ tools/perf/trace/beauty/fadvise.sh
  static const char *fadvise_advices[] = {
        [0] = "NORMAL",
        [1] = "RANDOM",
        [2] = "SEQUENTIAL",
        [3] = "WILLNEED",
        [4] = "DONTNEED",
        [5] = "NOREUSE",
  };
  $

The tools/perf/check-headers.sh script, part of the tools/ build
process, points out changes in the original files.

So its important not to touch the copies in tools/ when doing changes in
the original kernel headers, that will be done later, when
check-headers.sh inform about the change to the perf tools hackers.

Cc: Michael Ellerman <mpe at ellerman.id.au>
Cc: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
Cc: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy at csgroup.eu>
Cc: linuxppc-dev at lists.ozlabs.org
Signed-off-by: Namhyung Kim <namhyung at kernel.org>
---
 tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl | 4 ++++
 1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

diff --git a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl
index e1412519b4ad..7fab411378f2 100644
--- a/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl
+++ b/tools/perf/arch/powerpc/entry/syscalls/syscall.tbl
@@ -539,3 +539,7 @@
 450 	nospu	set_mempolicy_home_node		sys_set_mempolicy_home_node
 451	common	cachestat			sys_cachestat
 452	common	fchmodat2			sys_fchmodat2
+453	common	map_shadow_stack		sys_ni_syscall
+454	common	futex_wake			sys_futex_wake
+455	common	futex_wait			sys_futex_wait
+456	common	futex_requeue			sys_futex_requeue
-- 
2.43.0.rc1.413.gea7ed67945-goog



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