Re: [PATCH 08/24] Allow a 32bit ABI to use the naming of the 64bit ABI syscalls to avoid confusion of not splitting the registers.

From: Catalin Marinas
Date: Tue Jun 17 2014 - 12:52:49 EST


On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:02:03AM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
> In the ARM64 ILP32 case, we want to say the syscalls that normally
> would pass 64bit as two arguments are now passing as one so want to
> use the 64bit naming scheme.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andrew Pinski <apinski@xxxxxxxxxx>
> ---
> include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h | 5 ++++-
> 1 files changed, 4 insertions(+), 1 deletions(-)
>
> diff --git a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> index 3336406..0648659 100644
> --- a/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> +++ b/include/uapi/asm-generic/unistd.h
> @@ -875,8 +875,11 @@ __SYSCALL(__NR_fork, sys_ni_syscall)
> * they take different names.
> * Here we map the numbers so that both versions
> * use the same syscall table layout.
> + * For 32bit abis where 64bit can be passed via one
> + * register, use the same naming as the 64bit ones
> + * as they will only have a 64 bit off_t.
> */
> -#if __BITS_PER_LONG == 64 && !defined(__SYSCALL_COMPAT)
> +#if (__BITS_PER_LONG == 64 && !defined(__SYSCALL_COMPAT)) || defined(__SYSCALL_NONCOMPAT)
> #define __NR_fcntl __NR3264_fcntl
> #define __NR_statfs __NR3264_statfs
> #define __NR_fstatfs __NR3264_fstatfs

I can see why you are defining this. For compat, we don't expose
__SYSCALL_COMPAT to user. But this to work with ILP32 UAPI headers we
would have to define __SYSCALL_NONCOMPAT in the arm64 uapi unistd.h if
!__LP64__. I think we should use some naming closer to what we expose
via UAPI already (on other architectures) like
__ARCH_WANT_64BIT_SYSCALLS (or maybe we could reuse
__ARCH_WANT_SYSCALL_OFF_T).

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Catalin
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