From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 X-Msuck: nntp://news.gmane.org/gmane.linux.lib.musl.general/6983 Path: news.gmane.org!not-for-mail From: Rich Felker Newsgroups: gmane.linux.kernel,gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel,gmane.linux.lib.musl.general,gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha Subject: Re: [PATCHv3 00/24] ILP32 support in ARM64 Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:02:52 -0500 Message-ID: <20150211190252.GB23507@brightrain.aerifal.cx> References: <20141002155217.GH32147@e104818-lin.cambridge.arm.com> <20150210181302.GA23886@brightrain.aerifal.cx> NNTP-Posting-Host: plane.gmane.org Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii X-Trace: ger.gmane.org 1423681418 19273 80.91.229.3 (11 Feb 2015 19:03:38 GMT) X-Complaints-To: usenet@ger.gmane.org NNTP-Posting-Date: Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:03:38 +0000 (UTC) Cc: Catalin Marinas , Andrew Pinski , linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org, LKML , Andrew Pinski , musl@lists.openwall.com, GNU C Library To: "H.J. Lu" Original-X-From: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Wed Feb 11 20:03:33 2015 Return-path: Envelope-to: glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org Original-Received: from vger.kernel.org ([209.132.180.67]) by plane.gmane.org with esmtp (Exim 4.69) (envelope-from ) id 1YLcZO-00042M-Vr for glk-linux-kernel-3@plane.gmane.org; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 20:03:31 +0100 Original-Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1754040AbbBKTD0 (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:03:26 -0500 Original-Received: from 216-12-86-13.cv.mvl.ntelos.net ([216.12.86.13]:36935 "EHLO brightrain.aerifal.cx" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1753978AbbBKTDY (ORCPT ); Wed, 11 Feb 2015 14:03:24 -0500 Original-Received: from dalias by brightrain.aerifal.cx with local (Exim 3.15 #2) id 1YLcYm-0001Et-00; Wed, 11 Feb 2015 19:02:52 +0000 Content-Disposition: inline In-Reply-To: User-Agent: Mutt/1.5.21 (2010-09-15) Original-Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org Precedence: bulk List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org Xref: news.gmane.org gmane.linux.kernel:1886696 gmane.linux.ports.arm.kernel:392798 gmane.linux.lib.musl.general:6983 gmane.comp.lib.glibc.alpha:49149 Archived-At: On Wed, Feb 11, 2015 at 10:33:32AM -0800, H.J. Lu wrote: > On Tue, Feb 10, 2015 at 10:13 AM, Rich Felker wrote: > > On Thu, 2 Oct 2014 at 16:52:18 +0100, Catalin Marinas wrote: > >> On Wed, Sep 03, 2014 at 10:18:54PM +0100, Andrew Pinski wrote: > >> > New version with all of the requested changes. Updated to the > >> > latest sources. > >> > > >> > Notable changes from the previous versions: > >> > VDSO code has been factored out to be easier to understand and > >> > easier to maintain. > >> > Move the config option to the last thing that gets added. > >> > Added some extra COMPAT_* macros for core dumping for easier usage. > >> > >> Apart from a few comments I've made, I would also like to see non-empty > >> commit logs and long line wrapping (both in commit logs and > >> Documentation/). Otherwise, the patches look fine. > >> > >> So what are the next steps? Are the glibc folk ok with the ILP32 Linux > >> ABI? On the kernel side, what I would like to see: > > > > I don't know if this has been discussed on libc-alpha yet or not, but > > I think we need to open a discussion of how it relates to open glibc > > bug #16437, which presently applies only to x32 (ILP32 ABI on x86_64): > > > > https://sourceware.org/bugzilla/show_bug.cgi?id=16437 > > Please leave x32 out of this discussion. I have resolved this bug > as WONTFIX. >From the glibc side, I thought things went by a consensus process these days, not the old WONTFIX regime of he who shall not be named. If this is not fixed for x32, then x32 cannot provide a conforming C environment and thus it's rather a toy target. But I think we should discuss this on libc-alpha. In the mean time please leave it REOPENED. Rich