From: "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>
To: Ralf Baechle <ralf@linux-mips.org>
Cc: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>,
David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>,
linux-arch@vger.kernel.org, linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org,
kernel@teksavvy.com, drepper@redhat.com,
torvalds@linux-foundation.org, munroesj@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Subject: Re: 64-syscall args on 32-bit vs syscall()
Date: Mon, 15 Mar 2010 08:13:53 -0700 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <4B9E4EB1.9010800@zytor.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20100315134449.GB1653@linux-mips.org>
On 03/15/2010 06:44 AM, Ralf Baechle wrote:
>
> Syscall is most often used for new syscalls that have no syscall stub in
> glibc yet, so the user of syscall() encodes this ABI knowledge. If at a
> later stage syscall() is changed to have this sort of knowledge we break
> the API. This is something only the kernel can get right.
>
One option would be to do a libkernel.so, with auto-generated stubs out
of the kernel build tree. As already discussed in #kernel this morning,
there are a number of sticky points with types and namespaces for this
this, but those aren't any worse than the equivalent problems for
syscall(3).
-hpa
--
H. Peter Anvin, Intel Open Source Technology Center
I work for Intel. I don't speak on their behalf.
next prev parent reply other threads:[~2010-03-15 15:21 UTC|newest]
Thread overview: 38+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2010-03-15 4:48 64-syscall args on 32-bit vs syscall() Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 4:48 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 5:06 ` David Miller
2010-03-15 5:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 5:54 ` David Miller
2010-03-15 20:22 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 13:44 ` Ralf Baechle
2010-03-15 15:13 ` H. Peter Anvin [this message]
2010-03-15 16:00 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-15 19:00 ` David Miller
2010-03-15 19:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-15 20:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 20:41 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-16 21:56 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-17 0:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 0:31 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 5:52 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-17 8:56 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 9:14 ` Ulrich Drepper
2010-03-17 10:13 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 9:18 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-17 10:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 18:30 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-17 20:35 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 20:53 ` H. Peter Anvin
2010-03-17 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-17 22:58 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-18 16:08 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-18 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-03-18 16:21 ` Andreas Schwab
2010-03-18 17:03 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-18 21:18 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-19 1:22 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-15 20:27 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 15:03 ` Steven Munroe
2010-03-15 20:32 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
2010-03-15 15:04 ` Jamie Lokier
2010-03-15 20:33 ` Benjamin Herrenschmidt
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