From: David Laight <[email protected]>
To: 'Arnd Bergmann' <[email protected]>, Al Viro <[email protected]>
Cc: Christoph Hellwig <[email protected]>,
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Subject: RE: [PATCH 5/9] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers
Date: Wed, 23 Sep 2020 21:30:25 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <[email protected]> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a3nkLUOkR+jwz2_2LcYTUTqdVf8JOtZqKWbtEDotNhFZA@mail.gmail.com>
From: Arnd Bergmann
> Sent: 23 September 2020 19:46
...
> Regardless of that, another advantage of having the SYSCALL_DECLAREx()
> would be the ability to include that header file from elsewhere with a different
> macro definition to create a machine-readable version of the interface when
> combined with the syscall.tbl files. This could be used to create a user
> space stub for calling into the low-level syscall regardless of the
> libc interfaces,
> or for synchronizing the interfaces with strace, qemu-user, or anything that
> needs to deal with the low-level interface.
A similar 'trick' (that probably won't work here) is to pass
the name of a #define function as a parameter to another define.
Useful for defining constants and error strings together. eg:
#define TRAFFIC_LIGHTS(x) \
x(RED, 0, "Red") \
x(YELLOW, 1, "Yellow) \
x(GREEN, 2, "GREEN)
You can then do thing like:
#define x(token, value, string) token = value,
enum {TRAFFIC_LIGHTS(x) NUM_LIGHTS};
#undef x
#define x(token, value, string) [value] = string,
const char *colours[] = {TRAFFIC_LIGHTS(x)};
#undef x
to initialise constants and a name table that are always in sync.
It is also a good way to generate source lines that are over 1MB.
David
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next prev parent reply other threads:[~2020-09-23 21:30 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 27+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-09-23 6:05 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well v3 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 1/9] compat.h: fix a spelling error in <linux/compat.h> Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 2/9] iov_iter: move rw_copy_check_uvector() into lib/iov_iter.c Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 3/9] iov_iter: refactor rw_copy_check_uvector and import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 14:16 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 14:38 ` David Laight
2020-09-23 14:49 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 14:40 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 4/9] iov_iter: transparently handle compat iovecs in import_iovec Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 5/9] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 14:25 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 14:32 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 14:59 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 16:38 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 17:05 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 17:46 ` Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 17:08 ` Brian Gerst
2020-09-23 18:45 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-23 19:47 ` Al Viro
2020-09-23 19:52 ` Arnd Bergmann
2020-09-23 21:30 ` David Laight [this message]
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 6/9] fs: remove the compat readv/writev syscalls Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 7/9] fs: remove compat_sys_vmsplice Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 8/9] mm: remove compat_process_vm_{readv,writev} Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-23 6:05 ` [PATCH 9/9] security/keys: remove compat_keyctl_instantiate_key_iov Christoph Hellwig
-- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2020-09-25 4:51 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well v4 Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-25 4:51 ` [PATCH 5/9] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 let import_iovec deal with compat_iovecs as well Christoph Hellwig
2020-09-18 12:45 ` [PATCH 5/9] fs: remove various compat readv/writev helpers Christoph Hellwig
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