On Tue, Jul 11, 2023 at 06:16:02PM +0200, Alexey Gladkov wrote:
> In glibc, the fchmodat(3) function has a flags argument according to the
> POSIX specification [1], but kernel syscalls has no such argument.
> Therefore, libc implementations do workarounds using /proc. However,
> this requires
On Tue, Jul 25, 2023 at 07:39:51PM +0100, David Howells wrote:
> Florian Weimer wrote:
>
> > > Rather than adding a fchmodat2() syscall, should we add a
> > > "set_file_attrs()" syscall that takes a mask and allows you to set a bunch
> > > of stuff all in one go? Basically, an interface to
On Wed, Oct 06, 2021 at 11:43:29AM -0500, Rob Herring wrote:
> Replace open coded parsing of CPU nodes' 'reg' property with
> of_get_cpu_hwid().
>
> Cc: Yoshinori Sato
> Cc: Rich Felker
> Cc: linux...@vger.kernel.org
> Signed-off-by: Rob Herring
> ---
> arch
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:09:25PM +, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 10:22 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:06:49PM +, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > > On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 09:38 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at
On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 10:22:05AM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:06:49PM +, Joakim Tjernlund wrote:
> > On Wed, 2021-05-19 at 09:38 -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 06:42:40PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > > > Excerpts from
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 03:19:22PM -0300, Raoni Fassina Firmino wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 09:44:05AM -0500, Rich Felker wrote:
> > Maybe I'm missing something but I don't see how this would break musl;
> > we just inspect the PC in the mcontext, which I don't
On Fri, Jan 22, 2021 at 12:27:14PM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Nicholas Piggin:
>
> > diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/sigtramp.S
> > b/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/sigtramp.S
> > index a8cc0409d7d2..bbf68cd01088 100644
> > --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/vdso64/sigtramp.S
> > +++
On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 11:17:09PM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Fri, Jan 15, 2021 at 9:01 PM David Laight wrote:
> >
> > From: sonicadvan...@gmail.com
> > > Sent: 15 January 2021 07:03
> > > Problem presented:
> > > A backwards compatibility layer that allows running x86-64 and x86
> > >
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 12:01:11PM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Rich Felker writes:
>
> > On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:43:00AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> >> Xiaoming Ni writes:
> >>
> >> > Since the commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc (&quo
On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:43:00AM -0500, Eric W. Biederman wrote:
> Xiaoming Ni writes:
>
> > Since the commit 61a47c1ad3a4dc ("sysctl: Remove the sysctl system call"),
> > sys_sysctl is actually unavailable: any input can only return an error.
> >
> > We have been warning about people using
On Tue, Jun 09, 2020 at 10:29:57AM +, Will Springer wrote:
> On Saturday, May 30, 2020 3:56:47 PM PDT you wrote:
> > On Friday, May 29, 2020 12:24:27 PM PDT Rich Felker wrote:
> > > The argument passing for pread/pwrite is historically a mess and
> > > diff
On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 12:27:02PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Fri, Jun 05, 2020 at 04:18:18AM +0200, Daniel Kolesa wrote:
> > On Fri, Jun 5, 2020, at 01:35, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > > The thing is, I've yet to see in which way the ELFv2 ABI *actually*
> > > > requires VSX - I
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 03:00:51PM -0400, David Edelsohn wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 4, 2020 at 1:46 PM Rich Felker wrote:
> >
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:33:12PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > >
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:33:12PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 01:18:44PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:12:32PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> > > On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Daniel Kolesa wrote:
>
On Thu, Jun 04, 2020 at 12:12:32PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Tue, Jun 02, 2020 at 05:13:25PM +0200, Daniel Kolesa wrote:
> > well, ppc64le already cannot be run on those, as far as I know (I
> > don't think it's possible to build ppc64le userland without VSX in
> > any configuration)
>
On Mon, Jun 01, 2020 at 09:28:25PM +, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Fri, 29 May 2020, Will Springer via Binutils wrote:
>
> > Hey all, a couple of us over in #talos-workstation on freenode have been
> > working on an effort to bring up a Linux PowerPC userland that runs in
> > 32-bit
> >
On Fri, May 29, 2020 at 07:03:48PM +, Will Springer wrote:
> The next problem concerns the ABI more directly. The failure mode was `file`
> surfacing EINVAL from pread64 when invoked on an ELF; pread64 was passed a
> garbage value for `pos`, which didn't appear to be caused by anything in
>
On Sun, Apr 26, 2020 at 08:58:19AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of April 25, 2020 10:20 pm:
> >
> >
> > Le 25/04/2020 à 12:56, Nicholas Piggin a écrit :
> >> Excerpts from Christophe Leroy's message of April 25, 2020 5:47 pm:
> >>>
> >>>
> >>> Le
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 08:56:54PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> The ELF v2 ABI convention would suit it well, because the caller already
> >> requires the function address for ctr, so having it in r12 will
> >> eliminate the need for address calculation, which suits the vdso data
> >> page
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 03:22:27PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> As noted in the 'scv' thread, powerpc's vdso calling convention does not
> match the C ELF ABI calling convention (or the proposed scv convention).
> I think we could implement a new ABI by basically duplicating function
> entry
On Sat, Apr 25, 2020 at 01:40:24PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 24, 2020 3:42 am:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 02:15:58PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 23/04/2020 13:43, Rich Felker wrote:
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 02:15:58PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>
> On 23/04/2020 13:43, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 01:35:01PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 23/04/2020 13:18, Rich Felker wrote:
>
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 01:35:01PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>
> On 23/04/2020 13:18, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:13:57AM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 22/04/2020 23:36, Rich Felker wrote:
>
On Thu, Apr 23, 2020 at 09:13:57AM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>
> On 22/04/2020 23:36, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 04:18:36PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> Yeah I had a bit of a play around with musl (which is very nice code I
> >>
On Wed, Apr 22, 2020 at 04:18:36PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Yeah I had a bit of a play around with musl (which is very nice code I
> must say). The powerpc64 syscall asm is missing ctr clobber by the way.
> Fortunately adding it doesn't change code generation for me, but it
> should be
On Tue, Apr 21, 2020 at 12:28:25PM +, David Laight wrote:
> From: Nicholas Piggin
> > Sent: 20 April 2020 02:10
> ...
> > >> Yes, but does it really matter to optimize this specific usage case
> > >> for size? glibc, for instance, tries to leverage the syscall mechanism
> > >> by adding some
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 02:31:58PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 20, 2020 2:09 pm:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:32:21PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 20, 2020 11:34 am:
> >> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 12:32:21PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 20, 2020 11:34 am:
> > On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:10:25AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 17, 2020 4:31 am:
> >> > Note that because lr is
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 11:10:25AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 17, 2020 4:31 am:
> > Note that because lr is clobbered we need at least once normally
> > call-clobbered register that's not syscall clobbered to save lr in.
> > Otherwise stack frame
On Mon, Apr 20, 2020 at 10:27:58AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Szabolcs Nagy's message of April 16, 2020 7:58 pm:
> > * Nicholas Piggin via Libc-alpha [2020-04-16
> > 10:16:54 +1000]:
> >> Well it would have to test HWCAP and patch in or branch to two
> >> completely different
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:02:35PM -0500, Segher Boessenkool wrote:
> On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 08:12:19PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> > > I think my choice would be just making the inline syscall be a single
> > > call insn to an asm source file that out-of-lines the loading of TOC
> > > pointer
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:31:51PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > While on musl:
> >
> > :
> >0: 48 83 ec 08 sub$0x8,%rsp
> >4: 48 63 ffmovslq %edi,%rdi
> >7: 48 63 f6
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 03:18:42PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>
> On 16/04/2020 14:59, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:50:18PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> >>
> >>
> >> On 16/04/2020 12:37, Rich Felker wrote:
>
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 02:50:18PM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
>
>
> On 16/04/2020 12:37, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:16:04AM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> >>> My preference would be that it work just like the i386 AT_SYSINFO
> >&g
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:42:32PM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Rich Felker:
>
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:48:44AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> >> * Rich Felker:
> >>
> >> > My preference would be that it work just like the i386 AT_SYSIN
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:21:56AM -0400, Jeffrey Walton wrote:
> On Wed, Apr 15, 2020 at 8:17 PM Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >
> > Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 16, 2020 8:55 am:
> > > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:45:09AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > >> I would like to enable
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 11:16:04AM -0300, Adhemerval Zanella wrote:
> > My preference would be that it work just like the i386 AT_SYSINFO
> > where you just replace "int $128" with "call *%%gs:16" and the kernel
> > provides a stub in the vdso that performs either scv or the old
> > mechanism with
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 06:48:44AM +0200, Florian Weimer wrote:
> * Rich Felker:
>
> > My preference would be that it work just like the i386 AT_SYSINFO
> > where you just replace "int $128" with "call *%%gs:16" and the kernel
> > provides a stub in
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:53:31PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> > Not to mention the dcache line to access
> > __hwcap or whatever, and the icache lines to setup access TOC-relative
> > access to it. (Of course you could put a copy of its value in TLS at a
> > fixed offset, which would somewhat
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 12:24:16PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> > Likewise, it's not useful to have different error return mechanisms
> >> > because the caller just has to branch to support both (or the
> >> > kernel-provided stub just has to emulate one for it; that could work
> >> > if you
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 10:16:54AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> Excerpts from Rich Felker's message of April 16, 2020 8:55 am:
> > On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:45:09AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> >> I would like to enable Linux support for the powerpc 'scv' instruction,
> >> as a faster
On Thu, Apr 16, 2020 at 07:45:09AM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
> I would like to enable Linux support for the powerpc 'scv' instruction,
> as a faster system call instruction.
>
> This requires two things to be defined: Firstly a way to advertise to
> userspace that kernel supports scv, and a
On Tue, Jul 16, 2019 at 06:27:17PM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote:
> man 3p says that fchmodat() takes a flags argument, but the Linux
> syscall does not. There doesn't appear to be a good userspace
> workaround for this issue but the implementation in the kernel is pretty
> straight-forward. The
On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 09:55:08AM +0200, Pavel Machek wrote:
> Hi!
>
> > Current implementation doesn't randomize address returned by mmap.
> > All the entropy ends with choosing mmap_base_addr at the process
> > creation. After that mmap build very predictable layout of address
> > space. It
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 04:49:04PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 03:53:53PM -0700, Kees Cook wrote:
> > I agree: pushing this off to libc leaves a lot of things unprotected.
> > I think this should live in the kernel. The question I have is about
> > making it
On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 06:16:35PM -0400, Theodore Y. Ts'o wrote:
> On Tue, Mar 27, 2018 at 04:51:08PM +0300, Ilya Smith wrote:
> > > /dev/[u]random is not sufficient?
> >
> > Using /dev/[u]random makes 3 syscalls - open, read, close. This is a
> > performance
> > issue.
>
> You may want to
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:06:18PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 02:00:24PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:48:06AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> > > On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 07:36:36PM +0300, Ilya Smith wrote:
> > &g
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 12:29:52PM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 03:16:21PM -0400, Rich Felker wrote:
> > > Huh, I thought libc was aware of this. Also, I'd expect a libc-based
> > > implementation to restrict itself to, eg, only loading libraries in
On Fri, Mar 23, 2018 at 05:48:06AM -0700, Matthew Wilcox wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 07:36:36PM +0300, Ilya Smith wrote:
> > Current implementation doesn't randomize address returned by mmap.
> > All the entropy ends with choosing mmap_base_addr at the process
> > creation. After that mmap
On Wed, Mar 15, 2017 at 12:44:47PM -0700, Till Smejkal wrote:
> On Wed, 15 Mar 2017, Andy Lutomirski wrote:
> > > One advantage of VAS segments is that they can be globally queried by
> > > user programs
> > > which means that VAS segments can be shared by applications that not
> > > necessarily
On Fri, Mar 03, 2017 at 01:27:10PM +0100, Jiri Slaby wrote:
> There is code duplicated over all architecture's headers for
> futex_atomic_op_inuser. Namely op decoding, access_ok check for uaddr,
> and comparison of the result.
>
> Remove this duplication and leave up to the arches only the
On Mon, May 30, 2016 at 09:34:07AM +0200, Geert Uytterhoeven wrote:
> > + /home/kisskb/slave/src/arch/sh/kernel/setup.c: error: implicit
> > declaration of function 'early_init_dt_scan'
> > [-Werror=implicit-function-declaration]: => 256:2
>
> sh-randconfig
Nice find. I think I'm
me functions.
>
> This changes the sh rtc-generic device to provide its
> rtc_class_ops directly, skipping one of the abstraction
> levels.
>
> Signed-off-by: Arnd Bergmann <a...@arndb.de>
I haven't tested any of this, but based on our discussion of the
previous version, I'm satisfied
On Thu, Apr 28, 2016 at 12:34:18AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> The rtc-generic driver provides an architecture specific
> wrapper on top of the generic rtc_class_ops abstraction,
> and on sh, that goes through another indirection using
> the rtc_sh_get_time/rtc_sh_set_time functions.
>
> This
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