From: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
To: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@altlinux.org>,
Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org, libc-dev@lists.llvm.org,
linux-api@vger.kernel.org, linuxppc-dev@lists.ozlabs.org,
Matheus Castanho <msc@linux.ibm.com>,
musl@lists.openwall.com
Subject: [musl] Re: Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI
Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 15:01:12 +1000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <1621400263.gf0mbqhkrf.astroid@bobo.none> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <1621385544.nttlk5qugb.astroid@bobo.none>
Excerpts from Nicholas Piggin's message of May 19, 2021 12:50 pm:
> Excerpts from Dmitry V. Levin's message of May 19, 2021 9:13 am:
>> Hi,
>>
>> On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:12:01PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
>> [...]
>>> - Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to move to
>>> using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to indicate error,
>>> which matches most other architectures, and is closer to a function call.
>>
>> Apparently, the patchset merged by commit v5.9-rc1~100^2~164 was
>> incomplete: all functions defined in arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h and
>> arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h that use ccr are broken when scv is used.
>> This includes syscall_get_error() and all its users including
>> PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO API, which in turn makes strace unusable
>> when scv is used.
>>
>> See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1929836
>
> I see, thanks. Using latest strace from github.com, the attached kernel
> patch makes strace -k check results a lot greener.
>
> Some of the remaining failing tests look like this (I didn't look at all
> of them yet):
>
> signal(SIGUSR1, 0xfacefeeddeadbeef) = 0 (SIG_DFL)
> write(1, "signal(SIGUSR1, 0xfacefeeddeadbe"..., 50signal(SIGUSR1, 0xfacefeeddeadbeef) = 0 (SIG_DFL)
> ) = 50
> signal(SIGUSR1, SIG_IGN) = 0xfacefeeddeadbeef
> write(2, "errno2name.c:461: unknown errno "..., 41errno2name.c:461: unknown errno 559038737) = 41
> write(2, ": Unknown error 559038737\n", 26: Unknown error 559038737
> ) = 26
> exit_group(1) = ?
>
> I think the problem is glibc testing for -ve, but it should be comparing
> against -4095 (+cc Matheus)
>
> #define RET_SCV \
> cmpdi r3,0; \
> bgelr+; \
> neg r3,r3;
This glibc patch at least gets that signal test working. Haven't run the
full suite yet because of trouble making it work with a local glibc
install...
Thanks,
Nick
---
diff --git a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
index c57bb1c05d..1ea4c3b917 100644
--- a/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
+++ b/sysdeps/powerpc/powerpc64/sysdep.h
@@ -398,8 +398,9 @@ LT_LABELSUFFIX(name,_name_end): ; \
#endif
#define RET_SCV \
- cmpdi r3,0; \
- bgelr+; \
+ li r9,-4095; \
+ cmpld r3,r9; \
+ bltlr+; \
neg r3,r3;
#define RET_SC \
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2021-05-19 5:01 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2020-06-11 8:12 [musl] " Nicholas Piggin
2020-06-11 8:12 ` [musl] [PATCH 1/2] powerpc/64s/exception: treat NIA below __end_interrupts as soft-masked Nicholas Piggin
2020-07-24 13:25 ` [musl] " Michael Ellerman
2020-06-11 8:12 ` [musl] [PATCH 2/2] powerpc/64s: system call support for scv/rfscv instructions Nicholas Piggin
2020-07-23 6:47 ` [musl] " Michael Ellerman
2020-07-23 16:48 ` Christophe Leroy
2020-07-24 10:45 ` Michael Ellerman
2020-06-11 21:02 ` [musl] Re: Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI Segher Boessenkool
2020-06-14 9:26 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-18 23:13 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-19 2:50 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 5:01 ` Nicholas Piggin [this message]
2021-05-21 19:40 ` Matheus Castanho
2021-05-21 19:52 ` Florian Weimer
2021-05-21 20:00 ` Matheus Castanho
2021-05-21 20:52 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-24 12:11 ` Matheus Castanho
2021-05-24 20:33 ` Matheus Castanho
2021-05-19 10:24 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-19 10:59 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 12:39 ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2021-05-19 13:26 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-19 22:51 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 23:27 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-20 2:40 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-20 3:06 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-20 5:12 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 7:33 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2021-05-19 7:55 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 8:08 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2021-05-19 8:42 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 11:12 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-19 14:38 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-19 15:06 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2021-05-19 15:22 ` Segher Boessenkool
2021-05-19 15:36 ` Rich Felker
2021-05-19 18:09 ` Joakim Tjernlund
2021-05-19 23:48 ` Rich Felker
2021-05-20 1:06 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-20 2:45 ` Nicholas Piggin
2021-05-20 2:59 ` Dmitry V. Levin
2021-05-20 7:20 ` Nicholas Piggin
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