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    powerpc: add __NR_syscalls along with NR_syscalls · 8a19eeea
    Firoz Khan authored
    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: default avatarFiroz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
    Signed-off-by: default avatarMichael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
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