errno.h: Improve ENOSYS's comment

ENOSYS is the mechanism used by user code to detect whether the running
kernel implements a given system call.  It should not be returned by
anything except an unimplemented system call.

Unfortunately, it is rather frequently used in the kernel to indicate that
various new functions of existing system calls are not implemented.  This
should be discouraged.

Improve the comment in errno.h to help clarify ENOSYS's purpose.

Signed-off-by: Andy Lutomirski <[email protected]>
Cc: Pavel Machek <[email protected]>
Cc: Michael Kerrisk <[email protected]>
Cc: Joe Perches <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Andrew Morton <[email protected]>
Signed-off-by: Linus Torvalds <[email protected]>

include/uapi/asm-generic/errno.h

@@ -6,7 +6,16 @@
 #define	EDEADLK		35	/* Resource deadlock would occur */
 #define	ENAMETOOLONG	36	/* File name too long */
 #define	ENOLCK		37	/* No record locks available */
-#define	ENOSYS		38	/* Function not implemented */
+
+/*
+ * This error code is special: arch syscall entry code will return
+ * -ENOSYS if users try to call a syscall that doesn't exist.  To keep
+ * failures of syscalls that really do exist distinguishable from
+ * failures due to attempts to use a nonexistent syscall, syscall
+ * implementations should refrain from returning -ENOSYS.
+ */
+#define	ENOSYS		38	/* Invalid system call number */
+
 #define	ENOTEMPTY	39	/* Directory not empty */
 #define	ELOOP		40	/* Too many symbolic links encountered */
 #define	EWOULDBLOCK	EAGAIN	/* Operation would block */