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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/23] arm64: compat: Add KUSER_HELPERS config option
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:09:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222140916.cgnq22trogt4dnzc@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190222140427.GI42419@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 02:04:27PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> I believe that Will wanted to default the kuser helpers off, as applications
> using them need the instruction emulation which is also disabled by default.
> 
> I'm also not sure which binaries we expect to work on arm64, so I'm not sure if
> the ARMv4 reference is correct.

Do you expect ARMv4 - even ARMv4 OABI binaries to fail on ARM64?

(I've run my OABI ARMv4 distro under KVM on Macchiatobin when I've
needed to rebuild a RPM without problems - using its own gcc.  No
observable issues.)

-- 
RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
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From: Russell King - ARM Linux admin <linux@armlinux.org.uk>
To: Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@arm.com>
Cc: Vincenzo Frascino <vincenzo.frascino@arm.com>,
	linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-arm-kernel@lists.infradead.org,
	Catalin Marinas <catalin.marinas@arm.com>,
	Will Deacon <will.deacon@arm.com>, Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
	Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>,
	Paul Burton <paul.burton@mips.com>,
	Daniel Lezcano <daniel.lezcano@linaro.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Mark Salyzyn <salyzyn@android.com>,
	Peter Collingbourne <pcc@google.com>,
	Shuah Khan <shuah@kernel.org>,
	Dmitry Safonov <0x7f454c46@gmail.com>,
	Rasmus Villemoes <linux@rasmusvillemoes.dk>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v5 08/23] arm64: compat: Add KUSER_HELPERS config option
Date: Fri, 22 Feb 2019 14:09:16 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20190222140916.cgnq22trogt4dnzc@shell.armlinux.org.uk> (raw)
Message-ID: <20190222140916.nztcFwNJaJU8TkhRO-ERA6ezw5AiXkLWxjmsQrI2ZPc@z> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20190222140427.GI42419@lakrids.cambridge.arm.com>

On Fri, Feb 22, 2019 at 02:04:27PM +0000, Mark Rutland wrote:
> I believe that Will wanted to default the kuser helpers off, as applications
> using them need the instruction emulation which is also disabled by default.
> 
> I'm also not sure which binaries we expect to work on arm64, so I'm not sure if
> the ARMv4 reference is correct.

Do you expect ARMv4 - even ARMv4 OABI binaries to fail on ARM64?

(I've run my OABI ARMv4 distro under KVM on Macchiatobin when I've
needed to rebuild a RPM without problems - using its own gcc.  No
observable issues.)

-- 
RMK's Patch system: https://www.armlinux.org.uk/developer/patches/
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  parent reply	other threads:[~2019-02-22 14:09 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 120+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2019-02-22 12:24 [PATCH v5 00/23] Unify vDSOs across more architectures Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 01/23] kernel: Standardize vdso_datapage Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:58   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 12:58     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-23 16:51   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-23 16:51     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-27 14:23     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-27 14:23       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 02/23] kernel: Define gettimeofday vdso common code Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 13:34   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 13:34     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 13:49   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-22 13:49     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-22 14:36     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-22 14:36       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-27 14:52     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-27 14:52       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28  9:29       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28  9:29         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 11:58         ` [PATCH 1/2] vdso: use fixed-size time types Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 11:58           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 11:58           ` [PATCH 2/2] vdso: add clock_gettime64 Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 11:58             ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 13:42           ` [PATCH 1/2] vdso: use fixed-size time types Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-28 13:42             ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-28 13:45           ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28 13:45             ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-23 10:34   ` [PATCH v5 02/23] kernel: Define gettimeofday vdso common code Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-23 10:34     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-25 14:09     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-25 14:09       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-23 17:31   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-23 17:31     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-27 13:47     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-27 13:47       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-27 15:49       ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-27 15:49         ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-27 16:06         ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-27 16:06           ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 03/23] arm64: Build vDSO with -ffixed-x18 Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 04/23] arm64: Substitute gettimeofday with C implementation Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 13:42   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 13:42     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 05/23] arm64: compat: Alloc separate pages for vectors and sigpage Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 06/23] arm64: compat: Split kuser32 Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 07/23] arm64: compat: Refactor aarch32_alloc_vdso_pages() Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 08/23] arm64: compat: Add KUSER_HELPERS config option Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 14:04   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:04     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:09     ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin [this message]
2019-02-22 14:09       ` Russell King - ARM Linux admin
2019-02-26 12:10     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-26 12:10       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 09/23] arm64: compat: Add missing syscall numbers Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 10/23] arm64: compat: Expose signal related structures Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 11/23] arm64: compat: Generate asm offsets for signals Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 14:22   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:22     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 12/23] lib: vdso: Add compat support Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 13/23] arm64: compat: Add vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 14:32   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:32     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 14/23] arm64: Refactor vDSO code Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 14:37   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:37     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 15/23] arm64: compat: vDSO setup for compat layer Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 16/23] arm64: elf: vDSO code page discovery Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 17/23] arm64: compat: Get sigreturn trampolines from vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 18/23] arm64: Add vDSO compat support Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 19/23] arm64: Enable compat vDSO support Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 14:39   ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:39     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:41     ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 14:41       ` Mark Rutland
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 20/23] arm: Add support for generic vDSO Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 21/23] mips: " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 22/23] x86: " Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-23 10:45   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-23 10:45     ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-27 16:18     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-27 16:18       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24 ` [PATCH v5 23/23] kselftest: Extend vDSO selftest Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-22 12:24   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-23 17:39 ` [PATCH v5 00/23] Unify vDSOs across more architectures Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-23 17:39   ` Thomas Gleixner
2019-02-28 11:40 ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 11:40   ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 12:09   ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28 12:09     ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28 12:38     ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 12:38       ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 12:42       ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28 12:42         ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28 13:54         ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 13:54           ` Arnd Bergmann
2019-02-28 15:51           ` Vincenzo Frascino
2019-02-28 15:51             ` Vincenzo Frascino

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