On Sun, 2008-11-09 at 01:24 +0100, Jiří Paleček wrote: > Hello, > > when building Debian ltp package on alpha, the package failed to build, > because alpha lacks some of the syscalls (the xxx_16 ones). See > > http://experimental.debian.net/fetch.php?&pkg=ltp&ver=20081031%2Bdfsg-1&arch=alpha&stamp=1225968365&file=log&as=raw > > I have created some patches, which fix this behaviour (ie. the build > doesn't fail then). They work like this: > > 1. Syscalls which are potentially missing on some architectures are > listed in the stub-list > > 2. If a syscall(x) is called and x is 0 (a value of undefined stub > syscalls), the test is aborted by tst_brk(). This is accomplished by a > macro wrapper over the syscall() function (this almost eliminates the need > of changing the tests in question, and allows the compiler to eliminate > parts of tests of nonexistent syscalls as dead code). > > The attached patches implement this. Some remarks: > > - the syscalls added to the stub list are the ones which appear in the > kernel sources as __IGNORE_name-of-syscall > > - the macro is for gcc only. The test using this mechanism (ie. > #including linux_syscall_numbers.h and calling syscall()) must define > static function void cleanup(void) to be called when the syscall is > missing (the patch also handles this for tests that lack it). > > Regards > Jiri Palecek
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