linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools include: Add uapi mman.h for each architecture

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Date:   Tue, 13 Sep 2016 14:36:12 +0800
From:   "Wangnan (F)" <wangnan0@...wei.com>
To:     Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>
CC:     <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>, <lizefan@...wei.com>,
        <pi3orama@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/3] tools include: Add uapi mman.h for each architecture



On 2016/9/13 5:15, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo wrote:
> Em Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 04:07:42PM -0300, Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo escreveu:
>> Em Mon, Sep 12, 2016 at 12:54:29PM +0000, Wang Nan escreveu:
>>> Some mmap related macros have different values for different
>>> architectures. This patch introduces uapi mman.h for each
>>> architectures.
>>>
>>> Three headers are cloned from kernel include to tools/include:
>>>
>>>   tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman-common.h
>>>   tools/include/uapi/asm-generic/mman.h
>>>   tools/include/uapi/linux/mman.h
>> Cool, the above was done as copies, why not the rest? IIRC you mentioned
>> some reasoning behind that decision, but we need it spelled out here.
>>
>> For instance, I went on and look at arch/xtensa/include/uapi/asm/mman.h,
>> and couldn't find why we shouldn't copy it just like the three files
>> above.
>>
>> I'm looking now at why the build breaks in so many systems, first hunch
>> is that bits/ part (the ones without the failure details probably have
>> the same errors), alpine uses musl libc, but some that broke are glibc
>> based.
> So, please take a look at my perf/core branch, I applied 1/3 and 3/3,
> but took a different path for 2/3, now it builds for all systems I have
> containers for:

Clever! The key is to use mman.h in uapi instead of <sys/mman.h>.
Code require these macros is coincidentally needn't the definition
of functions like mmap, munmap and mprotect. Your solution is
better.

Thank you.

>    # time dm
>     1 67.700 alpine:3.4: Ok
>     2 23.565 android-ndk:r12b-arm: Ok
>     3 67.823 archlinux:latest: Ok
>     4 37.277 centos:5: Ok
>     5 57.621 centos:6: Ok
>     6 68.348 centos:7: Ok
>     7 61.971 debian:7: Ok
>     8 65.711 debian:8: Ok
>     9 36.894 debian:experimental: Ok
>    10 66.274 fedora:20: Ok
>    11 70.054 fedora:21: Ok
>    12 68.310 fedora:22: Ok
>    13 68.033 fedora:23: Ok
>    14 72.322 fedora:24: Ok
>    15 29.529 fedora:24-x-ARC-uClibc: Ok
>    16 77.458 fedora:rawhide: Ok
>    17 80.110 mageia:5: Ok
>    18 72.664 opensuse:13.2: Ok
>    19 70.878 opensuse:42.1: Ok
>    20 80.322 opensuse:tumbleweed: Ok
>    21 62.237 ubuntu:12.04.5: Ok
>    22 39.998 ubuntu:14.04: Ok
>    23 69.383 ubuntu:14.04.4: Ok
>    24 76.120 ubuntu:15.10: Ok
>    25 69.668 ubuntu:16.04: Ok
>    26 69.061 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm: Ok
>    27 73.337 ubuntu:16.04-x-arm64: Ok
>    28 77.061 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64: Ok
>    29 55.340 ubuntu:16.04-x-powerpc64el: Ok
>    30 85.579 ubuntu:16.10: Ok
>    31 59.645 ubuntu:16.10-x-s390: Ok
>
>    real	32m59.385s
>    user	0m1.856s
>    sys	0m2.077s
>    #
>