linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 16/17] arm: asm/syscall.h (unfinished)

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Date:	Fri, 19 Jun 2009 10:31:14 +0100
From:	Russell King <rmk+lkml@....linux.org.uk>
To:	Roland McGrath <roland@...hat.com>
Cc:	Christoph Hellwig <hch@....de>, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 16/17] arm: asm/syscall.h (unfinished)

On Fri, Apr 24, 2009 at 05:15:03PM -0700, Roland McGrath wrote:
> The syscall_get_nr() function here is not really right.  I don't
> know enough about ARM to finish it correctly.  It needs to figure
> out if the blocked user task is really in the kernel for a system
> call and return -1 if not.

That bit is rather hard - we maintain no global state as to whether a
task is in a syscall or not.  We also do not maintain a global view
of which syscall number is being executed.  The kernel just hasn't
required either of these things before.

> I also did not try to handle all the different ABI variants, which I
> don't really understand.

There are two places that the syscall number comes from: EABI and thumb
both use R7.  OABI puts the value in the instruction itself.

In short, I don't know what to do about this either.  I don't think
there's a quick and simple answer.

Your implementation of syscall_get_arguments() looks wrong - for OABI
it makes sense because there is no padding in the allocation of registers.
However, for EABI, there is padding, so 64-bit values always come in
using an even+odd register number.  Short of maintaining some sort of
table describing the argument placements for every kernel syscall (eww)
I'm not sure how this could be fixed.

-- 
Russell King
 Linux kernel    2.6 ARM Linux   - http://www.arm.linux.org.uk/
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