[PATCH 22/24] ARM64:ILP32: Use a seperate syscall table as a few syscalls need to be using the compat syscalls.

Pinski, Andrew Andrew.Pinski at caviumnetworks.com
Tue Jul 1 08:30:51 PDT 2014



> On Jul 1, 2014, at 8:07 AM, "Catalin Marinas" <catalin.marinas at arm.com> wrote:
> 
>> On Sat, May 24, 2014 at 12:02:17AM -0700, Andrew Pinski wrote:
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
>> index 1e1ebfc..8241ffe 100644
>> --- a/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/entry.S
>> @@ -620,9 +620,14 @@ ENDPROC(ret_from_fork)
>>  */
>>    .align    6
>> el0_svc:
>> -    adrp    stbl, sys_call_table        // load syscall table pointer
>>    uxtw    scno, w8            // syscall number in w8
>>    mov    sc_nr, #__NR_syscalls
>> +#ifdef CONFIG_ARM64_ILP32
>> +    get_thread_info tsk
>> +    ldr    x16, [tsk, #TI_FLAGS]
>> +    tbnz    x16, #TIF_32BIT_AARCH64, el0_ilp32_svc // We are using ILP32
>> +#endif
>> +    adrp    stbl, sys_call_table        // load syscall table pointer
> 
> This adds a slight penalty on the AArch64 SVC entry path. I can't tell
> whether that's visible or not but I think the x86 guys decided to set an
> extra bit to the syscall number to distinguish it from native calls.
> 
>> diff --git a/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c
>> new file mode 100644
>> index 0000000..1da1d11
>> --- /dev/null
>> +++ b/arch/arm64/kernel/sys_ilp32.c
> [...]
>> +/*
>> + * Wrappers to pass the pt_regs argument.
>> + */
>> +#define sys_rt_sigreturn sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper
>> +
>> +
>> +/* Using Compat syscalls where necessary */
>> +#define sys_ioctl        compat_sys_ioctl
>> +/* iovec */
>> +#define sys_readv        compat_sys_readv
>> +#define sys_writev        compat_sys_writev
>> +#define sys_preadv        compat_sys_preadv64
>> +#define sys_pwritev        compat_sys_pwritev64
>> +#define sys_vmsplice        compat_sys_vmsplice
> 
> Do these actually work? compat_iovec has two members of 32-bit each
> while the ILP32 iovec has a void * (32-bit) and a __kernel_size_t which
> is 64-bit.

size_t should be unsigned long in ilp32 so a 32bit unsigned integer type.  That part of the abi was already defined in the arm abi documents.  Now are saying we should pass size_t different between user and kernel space?

> 
>> +/* robust_list_head */
>> +#define sys_set_robust_list    compat_sys_set_robust_list
>> +#define sys_get_robust_list    compat_sys_get_robust_list
> 
> Same here, we have a size_t * argument. The compat function would write
> back 32-bit but size_t is 64-bit for ILP32.

See above. Size_t is 32bits. 

> 
>> +/* kexec_segment */
>> +#define sys_kexec_load        compat_sys_kexec_load
> 
> More size_t members in the kexec_segment structure (but we don't yet
> have kexec on arm64).

See above. Size_t is 32bits. 

> 
>> +/* struct msghdr */
>> +#define sys_recvfrom        compat_sys_recvfrom
> 
> Why compat here? struct sockaddr seems to be the same as the native one.
> 
>> +#define sys_recvmmsg        compat_sys_recvmmsg
>> +#define sys_sendmmsg        compat_sys_sendmmsg
>> +#define sys_sendmsg        compat_sys_sendmsg
>> +#define sys_recvmsg        compat_sys_recvmsg
> 
> These get messier as well with a different size_t affecting struct
> msghdr.

See above about size_t. 


> 
>> +#define sys_setsockopt        compat_sys_setsockopt
>> +#define sys_getsockopt        compat_sys_getsockopt
> 
> Looking at the sock_getsockopt() function, we have a union v copied
> to/from user. However, such a union contains a struct timeval which for
> ILP32 would be different than the compat one.

I will look into this one but it might already be taken care of due to the compact uses 64bit time spec define. I will add a comment saying that if it is true. 


> 
>> +/* iovec */
>> +#define sys_process_vm_readv    compat_sys_process_vm_readv
>> +#define sys_process_vm_writev    compat_sys_process_vm_writev
> 
> See above for iovec.

See above for my size_t question. 

> 
>> +/* Pointer in struct */
>> +#define sys_mount               compat_sys_mount
> 
> Which structure is this?

NFS structure, I can expand out the comment if needed. 


> 
>> +/* Scheduler */
>> +/* unsigned long bitmaps */
>> +#define sys_sched_setaffinity   compat_sys_sched_setaffinity
>> +#define sys_sched_getaffinity   compat_sys_sched_getaffinity
> 
> Does the long bitmask matter here? I can see the length is passed in
> bytes.

Yes for big endian. If we were only supporting little endian, bit fields would not matter. 

> 
>> +/* iov usage */
>> +#define sys_keyctl              compat_sys_keyctl
> 
> Same problem as iovec above.
> 
>> +/* aio */
>> +/* Pointer to Pointer  */
>> +#define sys_io_setup        compat_sys_io_setup
> 
> sys_io_setup takes a pointer to aio_context_t which is defined as
> __kernel_ulong_t (same as LP64).

Let me look at why I did this one, I think the code which used aio was not in glibc which is why I used the compat version. 

Thanks,
Andrew

> 
> -- 
> Catalin



More information about the linux-arm-kernel mailing list