Documentation: describe how to add a system call
authorDavid Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Mon, 10 Aug 2015 08:00:44 +0000 (09:00 +0100)
committerJonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Thu, 13 Aug 2015 23:54:06 +0000 (17:54 -0600)
commit4983953dbd038fd720e7e16eb9bad5d8ea059ccf
tree24817900e315891a7e13fc89153029372ab67e48
parent81db32a3c4627605a0e950d27a403ea02447ab60
Documentation: describe how to add a system call

Add a document describing the process of adding a new system call,
including the need for a flags argument for future compatibility, and
covering 32-bit/64-bit concerns (albeit in an x86-centric way).

Signed-off-by: David Drysdale <drysdale@google.com>
Reviewed-by: Michael Kerrisk <mtk.manpages@gmail.com>
Reviewed-by: Eric B Munson <emunson@akamai.com>
Reviewed-by: Kees Cook <keescook@chromium.org>
Reviewed-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@infradead.org>
Reviewed-by: Josh Triplett <josh@joshtriplett.org>
Signed-off-by: Jonathan Corbet <corbet@lwn.net>
Documentation/adding-syscalls.txt [new file with mode: 0644]