Re: RFD: x32 ABI system call numbers

From: Arnd Bergmann
Date: Sun Sep 04 2011 - 15:07:34 EST


On Sunday 04 September 2011 11:40:39 H.J. Lu wrote:
> #define __NR_x32_rt_sigaction
> #define __NR_x32_rt_sigprocmask
> #define __NR_x32_rt_sigreturn
> #define __NR_x32_rt_sigpending
> #define __NR_x32_rt_sigtimedwait
> #define __NR_x32_rt_sigqueueinfo
> #define __NR_x32_rt_tgsigqueueinfo
> #define __NR_x32_sigaltstack
> #define __NR_x32_waitid
> #define __NR_x32_mq_notify
> #define __NR_x32_timer_create

Right, all signal functions certainly need a new implementation.

> #define __NR_x32_ioctl

What do you plan to do for ioctl? Does this mean you want to
have a third file_operations pointer besides ioctl and compat_ioctl?
I would hope that you manage this by using different ioctl command
numbers in the few cases where the x32 version has to differ from
the x86-32 data structure.

> #define __NR_x32_readv
> #define __NR_x32_writev
> #define __NR_x32_preadv
> #define __NR_x32_pwritev
> #define __NR_x32_vmsplice
> #define __NR_x32_move_pages
> #define __NR_x32_execve
> #define __NR_x32_set_robust_list
> #define __NR_x32_get_robust_list
> #define __NR_x32__sysctl
> #define __NR_x32_kexec_load
> #define __NR_x32_times

I guess you could define the x32 iovec etc. to be compatible with the
64 bit one, but that's not a major thing. Why can't you use the
regular x86_32 calls here?

> #define __NR_x32_recvfrom
> #define __NR_x32_sendmsg
> #define __NR_x32_recvmsg
> #define __NR_x32_recvmmsg
> #define __NR_x32_sendmmsg

These today use the MSG_CMSG_COMPAT flag to distinguish native and compat
calls. Do you plan to have another flag here to handle cmsg time values?

What about things like mq_{get,set}attr, quotactl and semtimedop?

Arnd
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