[PATCH v4 01/24] arm64:ilp32: add documentation on the ILP32 ABI for ARM64

Philipp Tomsich
2015-04-13T20:19:23Z

Based on Andrew Pinski's original patch-series and adapted with changes
to reduce the duplication of code-paths and resolve issue found during
LTP testing.

Signed-off-by: Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
Signed-off-by: Christoph Muellner <christoph.muellner@theobroma-systems.com>
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create mode 100644 Documentation/arm64/ilp32.txt

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+ILP32 AARCH64 SYSCALL ABI
+=========================
+Written by Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
+Updated by Philipp Tomsich <philipp.tomsich@theobroma-systems.com>
+
+
+This document describes the ILP32 syscall ABI and where it differs
+from the generic linux syscall interface.
+
+ILP32 sets __kernel_long_t and __kernel_ulong_t both to 64bit. This
+affects the following type definitions for ILP32 client programs:
+ * time_t unsigned long long
+ * clock_t unsigned long long
+ * fsword_t long long
+ * suseconds_t long long
+ * swblk_t long long
+ * fd_mask_t long long
+
+Some structures are changed to reduce the difference in the code path
+for both ILP32 and LP64 ABIs for signal handling.
+
+The following structures have been changed so the layout of the
+structures are the same between ILP32 and LP64 ABIs, including:
+ * timespec uses time_t and suseconds_t
+ * timeval uses time_t and suseconds_t
+ * stat uses timespec/time_t
+ * semid64_ds uses time_t.
+ * msqid64_ds uses time_t.
+ * shmid64_ds uses time_t.
+ * rt_sigframe uses siginfo and ucontext.
+ * siginfo_t uses clock_t and sigval_t
+ * ucontext uses stack_t and sigset_t
+ * sigval_t contains pointers
+ * sigevent Uses sigval_t which causes it to be the same. Special
+ handing is needed for reading; in the mq_notify syscall
+ * sigaction Conversion is handled in the userland (glibc), as the
+ userland data structures are defined in glibc anyway.
+ * fd_set This is done to avoid endian issues between ILP32 and
+ LP64. Syscalls consuming fd_set use timespec.
+
+A number of structures differ between ILP32 and LP64, including:
+ * struct msgbuf The specification of 'struct msgbuf' defines the 'mtype'
+ field as a 'long' (i.e. 32bit for ILP32, but 64bit for
+ LP64). Functions that operate on 'struct msgbuf' need
+ to be passed through the compat-syscalls to resolve
+ this.
+ * stack_t contains pointers (handled in the compatibility layer)
+
+Also the syscalls which normally would pass 64bit values as two arguments;
+now pass the 64bit value as one argument. Also they have been renamed
+(removing the 64 from the name) to avoid confusion.
+The list of these LP64 syscalls reused by ILP32 clients is:
+ * fcntl
+ * statfs
+ * fstatfs
+ * truncate
+ * ftruncate
+ * lseek
+ * sendfile
+ * newfstatat
+ * fstat
+ * mmap
+ * fadvise64
+
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