linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] x86: Alias memset to __builtin

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Message-ID: <20200327171235.GI22482@gate.crashing.org>
Date:   Fri, 27 Mar 2020 12:12:35 -0500
From:   Segher Boessenkool <segher@...nel.crashing.org>
To:     Clement Courbet <courbet@...gle.com>
Cc:     Nathan Chancellor <natechancellor@...il.com>,
        Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
        Nick Desaulniers <ndesaulniers@...gle.com>,
        Joe Perches <joe@...ches.com>,
        Bernd Petrovitsch <bernd@...rovitsch.priv.at>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>, Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
        "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
        clang-built-linux@...glegroups.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH]     x86: Alias memset to __builtin_memset.

Hi!

On Thu, Mar 26, 2020 at 01:38:39PM +0100, Clement Courbet wrote:
> --- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setjmp.h
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/setjmp.h
> @@ -12,7 +12,9 @@
> 
>  #define JMP_BUF_LEN    23
> -extern long setjmp(long *);
> -extern void longjmp(long *, long);
> +typedef long * jmp_buf;
> +
> +extern int setjmp(jmp_buf);
> +extern void longjmp(jmp_buf, int);
> 
> I'm happy to send a patch for this, and get rid of more -ffreestanding.
> Opinions ?

Pedantically, jmp_buf should be an array type.  But, this will probably
work fine, and it certainly is better than what we had before.

You could do
  typedef long jmp_buf[JMP_BUF_LEN];
perhaps?

Thanks,


Segher