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Commit 17c28958 authored by Dave Martin's avatar Dave Martin Committed by Catalin Marinas
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arm64: Abstract syscallno manipulation



The -1 "no syscall" value is written in various ways, shared with
the user ABI in some places, and generally obscure.

This patch attempts to make things a little more consistent and
readable by replacing all these uses with a single #define.  A
couple of symbolic helpers are provided to clarify the intent
further.

Because the in-syscall check in do_signal() is changed from >= 0 to
!= NO_SYSCALL by this patch, different behaviour may be observable
if syscallno is set to values less than -1 by a tracer.  However,
this is not different from the behaviour that is already observable
if a tracer sets syscallno to a value >= __NR_(compat_)syscalls.

It appears that this can cause spurious syscall restarting, but
that is not a new behaviour either, and does not appear harmful.

Signed-off-by: default avatarDave Martin <Dave.Martin@arm.com>
Acked-by: default avatarWill Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>
Signed-off-by: default avatarCatalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>
parent 35d0e6fb
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