Re: kernel/fork.c:3088:2: warning: clone3() entry point is missing, please fix

[John Paul Adrian Glaubitz <glaubitz@physik.fu-berlin.de>]

Hi Arnd,

On Mon, 2025-06-30 at 08:14 +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Sat, Jun 28, 2025, at 21:59, kernel test robot wrote:
> > Hi Arnd,
> > 
> > FYI, the error/warning still remains.
> > 
> > date:   12 months ago
> > config: hexagon-randconfig-2002-20250626 
> > (https://download.01.org/0day-ci/archive/20250628/202506282120.6vRwodm3-lkp@intel.com/config)
> > commit: 505d66d1abfb90853e24ab6cbdf83b611473d6fc clone3: drop __ARCH_WANT_SYS_CLONE3 macro
> > > kernel/fork.c:3088:2: warning: clone3() entry point is missing, please fix [-W#warnings]
> 
> My patch only moved the warning about the four broken architectures
> (hexagon, sparc, sh, nios2) that have never implemented the clone3
> syscall from commit 7f192e3cd316 ("fork: add clone3"), over six years
> ago.
> 
> I usually try to fix warnings when I get them, but the entire point
> why these still exist is that they require someone to add the
> syscall with the correct calling conventions for the respective
> architecture and make sure this actually works correctly.
> 
> I don't think any of those architecture maintainers are paying
> attention to the build warnings or the lkp reports, and they are
> clearly not trying to fix them any more, so maybe it's better to
> just stop testing them in lkp.

I have seen that warning about clone3() missing but I was not aware that it's
an urgent issue to address. Do you have any suggestion on how to implement
that syscall?

Adrian

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