[RFC5 PATCH v6 00/21] ILP32 for ARM64

Andreas Schwab
2016-02-29T16:00:29Z

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> writes:

> In https://github.com/norov/glibc/commit/5d4290435e428267171ece871539b76e1d079d11
> you are defining a struct __kernel_stat64 in the glibc. Is this the expected
> way to do it? I would have thought you'd get the definition from the kernel
> headers.

The problem really is that struct stat64 does not match the kernel
struct stat64. The latter uses the broken st_ino, where the 64-bit
inode is actually stored at the end of the structure, and there is
padding *before* the 32-bit inode, not after (so you cannot overlay a
64-bit inode field in little endian mode). You need to add the attached
file as sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/bits/stat.h, then you can use
the user-space struct stat64 to communicate with the *stat64 syscalls,
and __kernel_stat64 is not needed any more.

Andreas.

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