On 07/23/2015 09:45 PM, Philippe Gerum wrote:
> On 07/23/2015 03:37 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>> On 2015-07-23 11:22, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>> On 07/23/2015 11:08 AM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>> On 2015-07-23 10:40, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>>>> On 07/21/2015 04:54 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>> On 2015-07-21 14:51, Philippe Gerum wrote:
>>>>>>> On 07/21/2015 02:27 PM, Jan Kiszka wrote:
>>>>>>>> Hi Philippe,
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> just a heads up, I'll try to address this later:
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>> I received a report that include/rtdm/uapi/rtdm.h contains some data
>>>>>>>> structures that are used between the kernel and the userspace library
>>>>>>>> (so not directly by applications) and are not compatible with
>>>>>>>> 32-on-64-bit (compat) scenarios. We should probably promote anything
>>>>>>>> that is longer on 64-bit to that size, unconditionally. As this affects
>>>>>>>> the ABI, it should be fixed before 3.0 release, ideally.
>>>>>>>>
>>>>>>>
>>>>>>> That would require to fix up the client drivers (setsockopt, getsockopt
>>>>>>> typically). Ok, I'll have a look when I'm done with testing the blackfin
>>>>>>> port.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Indeed. Just realized that there are already compat structs for the
>>>>>> socket stuff. However, and that was what our user stumbled over, there
>>>>>> is none for _rtdm_mmap_request. But that should be really internal, 
>>>>>> right?
>>>>>>
>>>>>
>>>>> mmap() has the compat thunk for 32<->64 bit conversion already, so this
>>>>> is ok.
>>>>
>>>> Ok... Rechecking the bug report here, the issue is rather the case that
>>>> off_t becomes 64 bit when defining -D_FILE_OFFSET_BITS=64 for your
>>>> userland. We are apparently required to account for that case as well.
>>>>
>>>
>>> Ok, so let's move the offset member to loff_t and compat_loff_t in the
>>> mmap request descriptors, that should do the trick.
>>>
>>
>> I only forwarded this suggestion internally, unfortunately cannot tell
>> yet how it was implemented, just received the early feedback that it is
>> not yet working. Maybe we are overseeing something, maybe something went
>> wrong with the implementation. Will be checked tomorrow.
>>
> 
> This is likely an issue with the native alignment of those types, the
> kernel may offset long members in the compat struct based on different
> constraints than -m32 does.
> 

And we probably also need the mmap64 wrapper we don't have yet. Ok, I'm
working on this.

-- 
Philippe.

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