linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] arm64: Add __NR_* definitions for compat syscalls

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Message-ID: <20150129095702.GA1626@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 29 Jan 2015 09:57:03 +0000
From:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
To:	Timur Tabi <timur@...eaurora.org>
Cc:	AKASHI Takahiro <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org>,
	Al Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
	"eparis@...hat.com" <eparis@...hat.com>,
	"rgb@...hat.com" <rgb@...hat.com>,
	Catalin Marinas <Catalin.Marinas@....com>,
	"linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org" <linaro-kernel@...ts.linaro.org>,
	Deepak Saxena <dsaxena@...aro.org>,
	lkml <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
	"linux-audit@...hat.com" <linux-audit@...hat.com>,
	"linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org" 
	<linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v10 1/3] arm64: Add __NR_* definitions for compat syscalls

On Wed, Jan 28, 2015 at 09:31:49PM +0000, Timur Tabi wrote:
> On Fri, Jul 4, 2014 at 2:28 AM, AKASHI Takahiro
> <takahiro.akashi@...aro.org> wrote:
> > +#define __ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE           0x0f0000
> > +#define __ARM_NR_compat_cacheflush     (__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE+2)
> > +#define __ARM_NR_compat_set_tls                (__ARM_NR_COMPAT_BASE+5)
> 
> I know this patch is six months old, but I was wondering if anyone
> knows of any plans to make these syscalls available to 64-bit apps?
> We have a 32-bit app that uses __ARM_NR_compat_cacheflush, and we'd
> like to port that app to 64-bit.  I'm just not sure how to start doing
> that, since there don't appear to be any 64-bit ARM-specific syscalls.

You can issue cache maintenance instructions directly from EL0 in AArch64.
Take a look at DC CVAU, DC CVAC, DC CIVAC, IC IVAU and DC ZVA.

As for the TLS register, that's also writable from EL0 but I wouldn't
recommend messing with it outside of libc.

Will
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