scripts/syscalltbl.sh
Source file repositories/reference/linux-study-clean/scripts/syscalltbl.sh
File Facts
- System
- Linux kernel
- Corpus path
scripts/syscalltbl.sh- Extension
.sh- Size
- 1865 bytes
- Lines
- 93
- Domain
- Support Tooling And Documentation
- Bucket
- scripts
- Inferred role
- Support Tooling And Documentation: syscall or user/kernel boundary
- Status
- core implementation candidate
Why This File Exists
Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Repository support layer: documentation, build tooling, samples, user-space helper tools, generated initramfs support, licenses, and validation utilities.
- Defines or participates in a user/kernel boundary; inspect argument validation, copy_from_user/copy_to_user, credentials, and dispatch target.
Dependency Surface
- No C-style include directives detected by the generator.
Detected Declarations
- No top-level syscall, struct, function, initcall, or export declaration detected by the generator.
Annotated Snippet
#!/bin/sh
# SPDX-License-Identifier: GPL-2.0-only
#
# Generate a syscall table header.
#
# Each line of the syscall table should have the following format:
#
# NR ABI NAME [NATIVE] [COMPAT]
#
# NR syscall number
# ABI ABI name
# NAME syscall name
# NATIVE native entry point (optional)
# COMPAT compat entry point (optional)
set -e
usage() {
echo >&2 "usage: $0 [--abis ABIS] INFILE OUTFILE" >&2
echo >&2
echo >&2 " INFILE input syscall table"
echo >&2 " OUTFILE output header file"
echo >&2
echo >&2 "options:"
echo >&2 " --abis ABIS ABI(s) to handle (By default, all lines are handled)"
exit 1
}
# default unless specified by options
abis=
while [ $# -gt 0 ]
do
case $1 in
--abis)
abis=$(echo "($2)" | tr ',' '|')
shift 2;;
-*)
echo "$1: unknown option" >&2
usage;;
*)
break;;
esac
done
if [ $# -ne 2 ]; then
usage
fi
infile="$1"
outfile="$2"
nxt=0
grep -E "^[0-9]+[[:space:]]+$abis" "$infile" | {
while read nr abi name native compat noreturn; do
if [ $nxt -gt $nr ]; then
echo "error: $infile: syscall table is not sorted or duplicates the same syscall number" >&2
exit 1
fi
while [ $nxt -lt $nr ]; do
echo "__SYSCALL($nxt, sys_ni_syscall)"
nxt=$((nxt + 1))
done
if [ "$compat" = "-" ]; then
unset compat
Annotation
- Atlas domain: Support Tooling And Documentation / scripts.
- Implementation status: core implementation candidate.
Implementation Notes
- This generated page is the file-by-file coverage layer; curated subsystem chapters should link here when they synthesize a multi-file control flow.
- Core OS pages should be promoted from atlas-only to deep-reviewed when they explain data structures, invariants, locking, lifecycle, and C implementation snippets.
- Driver-family pages are intentionally pattern-oriented unless they are part of the selected PCIe/NVMe representative device path.