Re: [PATCH 1/5] glibc: Perform rseq(2) registration at C startup and thread creation (v8)

Joseph Myers
2019-04-18T14:48:47Z

On Thu, 18 Apr 2019, Mathieu Desnoyers wrote:

> The approach above should work for arm32 be8 vs be32 linker weirdness.
>
> For aarch64, I think we can simply do:
>
> /*
> * aarch64 -mbig-endian generates mixed endianness code vs data:
> * little-endian code and big-endian data. Ensure the RSEQ_SIG signature
> * matches code endianness.
> */
> #define RSEQ_SIG_CODE 0xd428bc00 /* BRK #0x45E0. */
>
> #ifdef __ARM_BIG_ENDIAN
> #define RSEQ_SIG_DATA 0x00bc28d4 /* BRK #0x45E0. */
> #else
> #define RSEQ_SIG_DATA RSEQ_SIG_CODE
> #endif
>
> #define RSEQ_SIG RSEQ_SIG_DATA
>
> Feedback is most welcome,

You'll also need __ASSEMBLER__ conditionals in the installed sys/rseq.h
header so that it only defines constants and doesn't include any C
declarations in that case, if RSEQ_SIG_CODE is meant to be usable in .S
files rather than just inline asm in C files.

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Joseph S. Myers
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