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4 Commits

Author SHA1 Message Date
Rashmica Gupta
f43194e458 powerpc: Standardise on NR_syscalls rather than __NR_syscalls.
Most architectures use NR_syscalls as the #define for the number of syscalls.

We use __NR_syscalls, and then define NR_syscalls as __NR_syscalls.

__NR_syscalls is not used outside arch code, whereas NR_syscalls is. So as
NR_syscalls must be defined and __NR_syscalls does not, replace __NR_syscalls
with NR_syscalls.

Signed-off-by: Rashmica Gupta <rashmicy@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-11-26 22:11:17 +11:00
Michael Ellerman
529d235a0e powerpc: Add a proper syscall for switching endianness
We currently have a "special" syscall for switching endianness. This is
syscall number 0x1ebe, which is handled explicitly in the 64-bit syscall
exception entry.

That has a few problems, firstly the syscall number is outside of the
usual range, which confuses various tools. For example strace doesn't
recognise the syscall at all.

Secondly it's handled explicitly as a special case in the syscall
exception entry, which is complicated enough without it.

As a first step toward removing the special syscall, we need to add a
regular syscall that implements the same functionality.

The logic is simple, it simply toggles the MSR_LE bit in the userspace
MSR. This is the same as the special syscall, with the caveat that the
special syscall clobbers fewer registers.

This version clobbers r9-r12, XER, CTR, and CR0-1,5-7.

Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
2015-03-28 22:03:40 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
caa34c9e9c [POWERPC] Fix a couple of copyright symbols
Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-01-25 22:52:50 +11:00
Stephen Rothwell
0a4690cf75 [POWERPC] Check that the syscall table matches the syscall numbers
Also check that __NR_syscalls has been updated appropriately.

Hopefully this will catch any out of order additions to the
table in the future.

Signed-off-by: Stephen Rothwell <sfr@canb.auug.org.au>
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras <paulus@samba.org>
2008-01-17 14:57:38 +11:00