linux-kernel - rseq system call incompletely wired up in microblaze

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Date:   Sun, 14 Oct 2018 12:46:58 -0400 (EDT)
From:   Mathieu Desnoyers <mathieu.desnoyers@...icios.com>
To:     Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Cc:     Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Paul E. McKenney" <paulmck@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Boqun Feng <boqun.feng@...il.com>,
        linux-kernel <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-api <linux-api@...r.kernel.org>
Subject: rseq system call incompletely wired up in microblaze

Hi Michal,

I notice the following commit went into 4.18:

commit 54b0a2011dfcd2e3fe2c28062694fbbe3eb377a3
Author: Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>
Date:   Thu Jun 14 08:24:39 2018 +0200

    microblaze: Add new syscalls io_pgetevents and rseq

    Wire up new syscalls io_pgetevents and rseq.

    Signed-off-by: Michal Simek <michal.simek@...inx.com>

It adds the rseq system call to the microblaze syscall list, but
does not add the required hooks in the architecture code, nor does
it select HAVE_RSEQ. So effectively, even though sys_rseq is reserved
on microblaze, it currently always returns ENOSYS.

Is your intent to simply reserve the system call number, or to
also get rseq to work on microblaze ?

A good example of the architecture changes required to
wire up rseq can be found here:

commit 9d6d99e3ac8ccfd0945edb3c83cd912838775056
Author: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
Date:   Sat Jun 30 10:54:15 2018 +0200

    s390: wire up rseq system call

    Signed-off-by: Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>
    Signed-off-by: Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>

Also, please make sure the tools/testing/selftests/rseq/ tests
pass before pushing a commit enabling it for your architecture.

Thanks,

Mathieu

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Mathieu Desnoyers
EfficiOS Inc.
http://www.efficios.com