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authorArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-06-08 11:23:33 -0300
committerArnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>2020-06-09 12:40:03 -0300
commit7e579f3a074c9348389ea0cf0491264e1ffbc585 (patch)
tree8decec2495734f10d5b1f197ac61625e0f3c57be /tools/arch
parent6c3c184fc420a2d8233d0e0f977e7df8051c5edb (diff)
tools arch x86 uapi: Synch asm/unistd.h with the kernel sources
To pick up the change in: 700d3a5a664d ("x86/syscalls: Revert "x86/syscalls: Make __X32_SYSCALL_BIT be unsigned long"") That doesn't trigger any changes in tooling and silences this perf build warning: Warning: Kernel ABI header at 'tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h' differs from latest version at 'arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h' diff -u tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h Cc: Adrian Hunter <adrian.hunter@intel.com> Cc: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org> Cc: Borislav Petkov <bp@suse.de> Cc: Jiri Olsa <jolsa@kernel.org> Cc: Namhyung Kim <namhyung@kernel.org> Signed-off-by: Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@redhat.com>
Diffstat (limited to 'tools/arch')
-rw-r--r--tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h9
1 files changed, 8 insertions, 1 deletions
diff --git a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
index 30d7d04d72d6..be5e2e747f50 100644
--- a/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
+++ b/tools/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h
@@ -2,7 +2,14 @@
#ifndef _UAPI_ASM_X86_UNISTD_H
#define _UAPI_ASM_X86_UNISTD_H
-/* x32 syscall flag bit */
+/*
+ * x32 syscall flag bit. Some user programs expect syscall NR macros
+ * and __X32_SYSCALL_BIT to have type int, even though syscall numbers
+ * are, for practical purposes, unsigned long.
+ *
+ * Fortunately, expressions like (nr & ~__X32_SYSCALL_BIT) do the right
+ * thing regardless.
+ */
#define __X32_SYSCALL_BIT 0x40000000
#ifndef __KERNEL__