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From: "Daniel P. Berrangé" <berrange@redhat.com>
To: Joelle van Dyne <j@getutm.app>
Cc: Kevin Wolf <kwolf@redhat.com>,
	Paolo Bonzini <pbonzini@redhat.com>,
	qemu-devel@nongnu.org, Stefan Hajnoczi <stefanha@redhat.com>,
	Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] coroutine: add libucontext as external library
Date: Tue, 9 Mar 2021 09:35:45 +0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <YEdBce6TWCVpSph9@redhat.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20210309032637.41778-1-j@getutm.app>

On Mon, Mar 08, 2021 at 07:26:36PM -0800, Joelle van Dyne wrote:
> iOS does not support ucontext natively for aarch64 and the sigaltstack is
> also unsupported (even worse, it fails silently, see:
> https://openradar.appspot.com/13002712 )
> 
> As a workaround we include a library implementation of ucontext and add it
> as a build option.

The README here:

  https://github.com/kaniini/libucontext

indicates that it is intentionally limiting what registers it saves
and restores, explicitly excluding FPU.

Peter & Paolo expressed concern about this, indicating FPU reg support
was a requirement for QEMU:

   https://lists.gnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2021-01/msg05525.html

Regards,
Daniel
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  reply	other threads:[~2021-03-09  9:41 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 14+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2021-03-09  3:26 [PATCH] coroutine: add libucontext as external library Joelle van Dyne
2021-03-09  9:35 ` Daniel P. Berrangé [this message]
2021-03-09  9:59   ` Joelle van Dyne
2021-03-09 10:20     ` Peter Maydell
2021-03-09 10:32       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-03-09 10:24     ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-09 10:29       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-03-09 10:42         ` Marc-André Lureau
2021-03-09 10:48           ` Paolo Bonzini
2021-03-09 15:38 ` Stefan Hajnoczi
2021-03-09 18:24   ` Joelle van Dyne
2021-03-09 21:21     ` Joelle van Dyne
2021-03-10  9:29       ` Daniel P. Berrangé
2021-03-10 16:32         ` Joelle van Dyne

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