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<title>linux.git/arch/powerpc/include/uapi, branch v5.1</title>
<subtitle>Linux kernel source tree</subtitle>
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<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'kbuild-v5.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild</title>
<updated>2019-03-17T20:25:26+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-17T20:25:26+00:00</published>
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add more Build-Depends to Debian source package

 - prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/

 - make modpost show verbose section mismatch warnings

 - avoid hard-coded CROSS_COMPILE for h8300

 - fix regression for Debian make-kpkg command

 - add semantic patch to detect missing put_device()

 - fix some warnings of 'make deb-pkg'

 - optimize NOSTDINC_FLAGS evaluation

 - add warnings about redundant generic-y

 - clean up Makefiles and scripts

* tag 'kbuild-v5.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: remove stale lxdialog/.gitignore
  kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y
  kbuild: warn redundant generic-y
  Revert "modsign: Abort modules_install when signing fails"
  kbuild: Make NOSTDINC_FLAGS a simply expanded variable
  kbuild: deb-pkg: avoid implicit effects
  coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put_device()
  kbuild: pkg: grep include/config/auto.conf instead of $KCONFIG_CONFIG
  kbuild: deb-pkg: introduce is_enabled and if_enabled_echo to builddeb
  kbuild: deb-pkg: add CONFIG_ prefix to kernel config options
  kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg
  kbuild: source include/config/auto.conf instead of ${KCONFIG_CONFIG}
  unicore32: simplify linker script generation for decompressor
  h8300: use cc-cross-prefix instead of hardcoding h8300-unknown-linux-
  kbuild: move archive command to scripts/Makefile.lib
  modpost: always show verbose warning for section mismatch
  ia64: prefix header search path with $(srctree)/
  libfdt: prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/
  deb-pkg: generate correct build dependencies
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Pull more Kbuild updates from Masahiro Yamada:

 - add more Build-Depends to Debian source package

 - prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/

 - make modpost show verbose section mismatch warnings

 - avoid hard-coded CROSS_COMPILE for h8300

 - fix regression for Debian make-kpkg command

 - add semantic patch to detect missing put_device()

 - fix some warnings of 'make deb-pkg'

 - optimize NOSTDINC_FLAGS evaluation

 - add warnings about redundant generic-y

 - clean up Makefiles and scripts

* tag 'kbuild-v5.1-2' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/masahiroy/linux-kbuild:
  kconfig: remove stale lxdialog/.gitignore
  kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y
  kbuild: warn redundant generic-y
  Revert "modsign: Abort modules_install when signing fails"
  kbuild: Make NOSTDINC_FLAGS a simply expanded variable
  kbuild: deb-pkg: avoid implicit effects
  coccinelle: semantic code search for missing put_device()
  kbuild: pkg: grep include/config/auto.conf instead of $KCONFIG_CONFIG
  kbuild: deb-pkg: introduce is_enabled and if_enabled_echo to builddeb
  kbuild: deb-pkg: add CONFIG_ prefix to kernel config options
  kbuild: add workaround for Debian make-kpkg
  kbuild: source include/config/auto.conf instead of ${KCONFIG_CONFIG}
  unicore32: simplify linker script generation for decompressor
  h8300: use cc-cross-prefix instead of hardcoding h8300-unknown-linux-
  kbuild: move archive command to scripts/Makefile.lib
  modpost: always show verbose warning for section mismatch
  ia64: prefix header search path with $(srctree)/
  libfdt: prefix header search paths with $(srctree)/
  deb-pkg: generate correct build dependencies
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>kbuild: force all architectures except um to include mandatory-y</title>
<updated>2019-03-17T03:56:32+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-17T02:01:09+00:00</published>
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Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.

um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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Currently, every arch/*/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild explicitly includes
the common Kbuild.asm file. Factor out the duplicated include directives
to scripts/Makefile.asm-generic so that no architecture would opt out
of the mandatory-y mechanism.

um is not forced to include mandatory-y since it is a very exceptional
case which does not support UAPI.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>Merge tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm</title>
<updated>2019-03-15T22:00:28+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Linus Torvalds</name>
<email>torvalds@linux-foundation.org</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-15T22:00:28+00:00</published>
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - some cleanups
   - direct physical timer assignment
   - cache sanitization for 32-bit guests

  s390:
   - interrupt cleanup
   - introduction of the Guest Information Block
   - preparation for processor subfunctions in cpu models

  PPC:
   - bug fixes and improvements, especially related to machine checks
     and protection keys

  x86:
   - many, many cleanups, including removing a bunch of MMU code for
     unnecessary optimizations
   - AVIC fixes

  Generic:
   - memcg accounting"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (147 commits)
  kvm: vmx: fix formatting of a comment
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  MAINTAINERS: Add KVM selftests to existing KVM entry
  Revert "KVM/MMU: Flush tlb directly in the kvm_zap_gfn_range()"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()
  KVM: PPC: Fix compilation when KVM is not enabled
  KVM: Minor cleanups for kvm_main.c
  KVM: s390: add debug logging for cpu model subfunctions
  KVM: s390: implement subfunction processor calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix architecturally invalid reset value for FPEXC32_EL2
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unused timer variable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Improve KVM reference counting
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix build failure without IOMMU support
  Revert "KVM: Eliminate extra function calls in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()"
  x86: kvmguest: use TSC clocksource if invariant TSC is exposed
  KVM: Never start grow vCPU halt_poll_ns from value below halt_poll_ns_grow_start
  KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
  KVM: grow_halt_poll_ns() should never shrink vCPU halt_poll_ns
  KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate kvm_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if zapping a MMIO spte results in zapping children
  ...
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Pull KVM updates from Paolo Bonzini:
 "ARM:
   - some cleanups
   - direct physical timer assignment
   - cache sanitization for 32-bit guests

  s390:
   - interrupt cleanup
   - introduction of the Guest Information Block
   - preparation for processor subfunctions in cpu models

  PPC:
   - bug fixes and improvements, especially related to machine checks
     and protection keys

  x86:
   - many, many cleanups, including removing a bunch of MMU code for
     unnecessary optimizations
   - AVIC fixes

  Generic:
   - memcg accounting"

* tag 'for-linus' of git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/virt/kvm/kvm: (147 commits)
  kvm: vmx: fix formatting of a comment
  KVM: doc: Document the life cycle of a VM and its resources
  MAINTAINERS: Add KVM selftests to existing KVM entry
  Revert "KVM/MMU: Flush tlb directly in the kvm_zap_gfn_range()"
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()
  KVM: PPC: Fix compilation when KVM is not enabled
  KVM: Minor cleanups for kvm_main.c
  KVM: s390: add debug logging for cpu model subfunctions
  KVM: s390: implement subfunction processor calls
  arm64: KVM: Fix architecturally invalid reset value for FPEXC32_EL2
  KVM: arm/arm64: Remove unused timer variable
  KVM: PPC: Book3S: Improve KVM reference counting
  KVM: PPC: Book3S HV: Fix build failure without IOMMU support
  Revert "KVM: Eliminate extra function calls in kvm_get_dirty_log_protect()"
  x86: kvmguest: use TSC clocksource if invariant TSC is exposed
  KVM: Never start grow vCPU halt_poll_ns from value below halt_poll_ns_grow_start
  KVM: Expose the initial start value in grow_halt_poll_ns() as a module parameter
  KVM: grow_halt_poll_ns() should never shrink vCPU halt_poll_ns
  KVM: x86/mmu: Consolidate kvm_mmu_zap_all() and kvm_mmu_zap_mmio_sptes()
  KVM: x86/mmu: WARN if zapping a MMIO spte results in zapping children
  ...
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</entry>
<entry>
<title>KVM: PPC: Book3S: Add count cache flush parameters to kvmppc_get_cpu_char()</title>
<updated>2019-03-01T04:11:14+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Suraj Jitindar Singh</name>
<email>sjitindarsingh@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-03-01T03:25:16+00:00</published>
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Add KVM_PPC_CPU_CHAR_BCCTR_FLUSH_ASSIST &amp;
KVM_PPC_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_COUNT_CACHE to the characteristics returned
from the H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS H-CALL, as queried from either the
hypervisor or the device tree.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh &lt;sjitindarsingh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
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Add KVM_PPC_CPU_CHAR_BCCTR_FLUSH_ASSIST &amp;
KVM_PPC_CPU_BEHAV_FLUSH_COUNT_CACHE to the characteristics returned
from the H_GET_CPU_CHARACTERISTICS H-CALL, as queried from either the
hypervisor or the device tree.

Signed-off-by: Suraj Jitindar Singh &lt;sjitindarsingh@gmail.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Paul Mackerras &lt;paulus@ozlabs.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>socket: Rename SO_RCVTIMEO/ SO_SNDTIMEO with _OLD suffixes</title>
<updated>2019-02-03T19:17:31+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Deepa Dinamani</name>
<email>deepa.kernel@gmail.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-02-02T15:34:53+00:00</published>
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SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches in the series add support for new socket
timeout options with _NEW suffix that will use y2038 safe
data structures. Although the existing struct timeval layout
is sufficiently wide to represent timeouts, because of the way
libc will interpret time_t based on user defined flag, these
new flags provide a way of having a structure that is the same
for all architectures consistently.
Rename the existing options with _OLD suffix forms so that the
right option is enabled for userspace applications according
to the architecture and time_t definition of libc.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
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SO_RCVTIMEO and SO_SNDTIMEO socket options use struct timeval
as the time format. struct timeval is not y2038 safe.
The subsequent patches in the series add support for new socket
timeout options with _NEW suffix that will use y2038 safe
data structures. Although the existing struct timeval layout
is sufficiently wide to represent timeouts, because of the way
libc will interpret time_t based on user defined flag, these
new flags provide a way of having a structure that is the same
for all architectures consistently.
Rename the existing options with _OLD suffix forms so that the
right option is enabled for userspace applications according
to the architecture and time_t definition of libc.

Signed-off-by: Deepa Dinamani &lt;deepa.kernel@gmail.com&gt;
Acked-by: Willem de Bruijn &lt;willemb@google.com&gt;
Cc: ccaulfie@redhat.com
Cc: deller@gmx.de
Cc: paulus@samba.org
Cc: ralf@linux-mips.org
Cc: rth@twiddle.net
Cc: cluster-devel@redhat.com
Cc: linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org
Cc: linux-alpha@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-mips@vger.kernel.org
Cc: linux-parisc@vger.kernel.org
Cc: sparclinux@vger.kernel.org
Signed-off-by: David S. Miller &lt;davem@davemloft.net&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc/perf: Update perf_regs structure to include MMCRA</title>
<updated>2019-01-08T08:22:47+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Madhavan Srinivasan</name>
<email>maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-09T09:25:36+00:00</published>
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On each sample, Monitor Mode Control Register A (MMCRA) content is
saved in pt_regs. MMCRA does not have a entry as-is in the pt_regs but
instead, MMCRA content is saved in the "dsisr" register of pt_regs.

Patch adds another entry to the perf_regs structure to include the
"MMCRA" printing which internally maps to the "dsisr" of pt_regs.

It also check for the MMCRA availability in the platform and present
value accordingly

mpe: This was the 2nd patch in a series with commit 333804dc3b7a
("powerpc/perf: Update perf_regs structure to include SIER") but I
accidentally only merged the 1st patch, so merge this one now.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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On each sample, Monitor Mode Control Register A (MMCRA) content is
saved in pt_regs. MMCRA does not have a entry as-is in the pt_regs but
instead, MMCRA content is saved in the "dsisr" register of pt_regs.

Patch adds another entry to the perf_regs structure to include the
"MMCRA" printing which internally maps to the "dsisr" of pt_regs.

It also check for the MMCRA availability in the platform and present
value accordingly

mpe: This was the 2nd patch in a series with commit 333804dc3b7a
("powerpc/perf: Update perf_regs structure to include SIER") but I
accidentally only merged the 1st patch, so merge this one now.

Signed-off-by: Madhavan Srinivasan &lt;maddy@linux.vnet.ibm.com&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove redundant UAPI generic-y defines</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T01:22:15+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T01:10:39+00:00</published>
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Now that Kbuild automatically creates asm-generic wrappers for missing
mandatory headers, it is redundant to list the same headers in
generic-y and mandatory-y.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
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Now that Kbuild automatically creates asm-generic wrappers for missing
mandatory headers, it is redundant to list the same headers in
generic-y and mandatory-y.

Suggested-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
Acked-by: Sam Ravnborg &lt;sam@ravnborg.org&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>arch: remove stale comments "UAPI Header export list"</title>
<updated>2019-01-06T00:46:51+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Masahiro Yamada</name>
<email>yamada.masahiro@socionext.com</email>
</author>
<published>2019-01-03T01:10:37+00:00</published>
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These comments are leftovers of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all
headers under uapi directories").

Prior to that commit, exported headers must be explicitly added to
header-y. Now, all headers under the uapi/ directories are exported.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
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These comments are leftovers of commit fcc8487d477a ("uapi: export all
headers under uapi directories").

Prior to that commit, exported headers must be explicitly added to
header-y. Now, all headers under the uapi/ directories are exported.

Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada &lt;yamada.masahiro@socionext.com&gt;
</pre>
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</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: generate uapi header and system call table files</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T03:46:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Firoz Khan</name>
<email>firoz.khan@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-17T10:40:36+00:00</published>
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System call table generation script must be run to gener-
ate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table_32/64/c32/spu.h files.
This patch will have changes which will invokes the script.

This patch will generate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table-
_32/64/c32/spu.h files by the syscall table generation
script invoked by parisc/Makefile and the generated files
against the removed files must be identical.

The generated uapi header file will be included in uapi/-
asm/unistd.h and generated system call table header file
will be included by kernel/systbl.S file.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan &lt;firoz.khan@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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System call table generation script must be run to gener-
ate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table_32/64/c32/spu.h files.
This patch will have changes which will invokes the script.

This patch will generate unistd_32/64.h and syscall_table-
_32/64/c32/spu.h files by the syscall table generation
script invoked by parisc/Makefile and the generated files
against the removed files must be identical.

The generated uapi header file will be included in uapi/-
asm/unistd.h and generated system call table header file
will be included by kernel/systbl.S file.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan &lt;firoz.khan@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
</pre>
</div>
</content>
</entry>
<entry>
<title>powerpc: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls</title>
<updated>2018-12-21T03:46:50+00:00</updated>
<author>
<name>Firoz Khan</name>
<email>firoz.khan@linaro.org</email>
</author>
<published>2018-12-17T10:40:32+00:00</published>
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NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist
in powerpc architecture. We have to change the value of
NR_syscalls, if we add or delete a system call.

One of the patch in this patch series has a script which
will generate a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file.
The syscall.tbl file contains the number of system call
information. So we have two option to update NR_syscalls
value.

1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by count-
   ing the no.of system calls. No need to update NR_sys-
   calls until we either add a new system call or delete
   existing system call.

2. We can keep this feature in above mentioned script,
   that will count the number of syscalls and keep it in
   a generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
   citly update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.

The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h along
with NR_syscalls asm/unistd.h. The macro __NR_syscalls
also added for making the name convention same across all
architecture. While __NR_syscalls isn't strictly part of
the uapi, having it as part of the generated header to
simplifies the implementation. We also need to enclose
this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan &lt;firoz.khan@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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NR_syscalls macro holds the number of system call exist
in powerpc architecture. We have to change the value of
NR_syscalls, if we add or delete a system call.

One of the patch in this patch series has a script which
will generate a uapi header based on syscall.tbl file.
The syscall.tbl file contains the number of system call
information. So we have two option to update NR_syscalls
value.

1. Update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h manually by count-
   ing the no.of system calls. No need to update NR_sys-
   calls until we either add a new system call or delete
   existing system call.

2. We can keep this feature in above mentioned script,
   that will count the number of syscalls and keep it in
   a generated file. In this case we don't need to expli-
   citly update NR_syscalls in asm/unistd.h file.

The 2nd option will be the recommended one. For that, I
added the __NR_syscalls macro in uapi/asm/unistd.h along
with NR_syscalls asm/unistd.h. The macro __NR_syscalls
also added for making the name convention same across all
architecture. While __NR_syscalls isn't strictly part of
the uapi, having it as part of the generated header to
simplifies the implementation. We also need to enclose
this macro with #ifdef __KERNEL__ to avoid side effects.

Signed-off-by: Firoz Khan &lt;firoz.khan@linaro.org&gt;
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman &lt;mpe@ellerman.id.au&gt;
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