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Re: Update syscall-names.list for 4.15


On Thu, Feb 01, 2018 at 06:14:06PM +0000, Joseph Myers wrote:
> [Proposed for once the release changes for 2.27, and the post-release 
> changes opening master for development for 2.28, have been committed.]
> 
> This patch updates sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/syscall-names.list for
> Linux 4.15.  There only appears to be one new syscall to add to the
> list.  (The riscv_flush_icache syscall is *not* added because for
> whatever reason it doesn't appear in the uapi asm/unistd.h; only in
> arch/riscv/include/uapi/asm/syscalls.h, which is only included by the
> non-uapi asm/unistd.h - and only syscalls whose __NR_* macros are
> defined in the uapi asm/unistd.h are relevant for this list.)

The rationale given in linux commit v4.15-rc8~25^2~2 for defining
__NR_riscv_flush_icache in this unusual location doesn't look convincing.

OK for master.


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