linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it

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Message-ID: <alpine.DEB.2.10.1511161109130.25844@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>
Date:	Mon, 16 Nov 2015 11:12:08 +0000
From:	Joseph Myers <joseph@...esourcery.com>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
CC:	Chris Metcalf <cmetcalf@...hip.com>,
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate
 table (in entry.S) to use it

On Mon, 16 Nov 2015, Arnd Bergmann wrote:

> Let's not get into the tv_nsec discussion today, that is not thankfully
> not relevant for arm64 any more at this point. The system call ABI for
> arm64/ilp32 is now the same as for any other 32-bit architecture using
> the generic ABI, the question we're trying to solve here is only whether it
> is ok for new 32-bit glibc ports to only offer a 64-bit off_t as the kernel
> currently does (using __kernel_loff_t) or if we still need to support the
> _FILE_OFFSET_BITS=32 case.
> 
> If I got you right, we can use 64-bit off_t now, so we just need someone
> to figure out how to make that the default in glibc for new architectures
> while keeping the existing 32-bit architectures unchanged.

It would be an entirely new combination.  Presumably such a port would 
want the "function X is an alias of function Y" aspects of wordsize-64 
directories (where that relates to off_t, struct stat etc. as opposed to 
long and long long), and the "registers are 64-bit so 64-bit operations 
are efficient" aspects, but not all the "64-bit syscall interface" 
aspects, so someone would need to review wordsize-64 sysdeps files and 
figure out what is or is not relevant to this port.

-- 
Joseph S. Myers
joseph@...esourcery.com
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