linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] perf bench: Add support for 32-bit systems with 64-bit time

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Message-ID: <CAKmqyKM3vy_Ob1a0=cEi_Efi6_VVAa8YfMb6+rOt3fQK_TTcmw@mail.gmail.com>
Date:   Fri, 24 Sep 2021 14:34:56 +1000
From:   Alistair Francis <alistair23@...il.com>
To:     Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:     André Almeida <andrealmeid@...labora.com>,
        Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@...nsource.wdc.com>,
        Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
        linux-riscv <linux-riscv@...ts.infradead.org>,
        Namhyung Kim <namhyung@...nel.org>,
        Jiri Olsa <jolsa@...hat.com>, linux-perf-users@...r.kernel.org,
        Alexander Shishkin <alexander.shishkin@...ux.intel.com>,
        Mark Rutland <mark.rutland@....com>,
        Arnaldo Carvalho de Melo <acme@...nel.org>,
        Davidlohr Bueso <dave@...olabs.net>,
        Darren Hart <dvhart@...radead.org>,
        Peter Zijlstra <peterz@...radead.org>,
        Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Atish Patra <atish.patra@....com>,
        Alistair Francis <alistair.francis@....com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 2/2] perf bench: Add support for 32-bit systems with
 64-bit time_t

On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 6:08 PM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> wrote:
>
> On Tue, Sep 21, 2021 at 12:47 AM André Almeida
> <andrealmeid@...labora.com> wrote:
> >
> > #if defined(__i386__) || __TIMESIZE == 32
> > # define NR_gettime64 __NR_clock_gettime64
> > #else
> > # define NR_gettime64 __NR_clock_gettime
> > #endif
> >
> > struct timespec64 {
> >         long long tv_sec;       /* seconds */
> >         long long tv_nsec;      /* nanoseconds */
> > };
> >
> > int gettime64(clock_t clockid, struct timespec64 *tv)
> > {
> >         return syscall(NR_gettime64, clockid, tv);
> > }
> >
> > Then we can just use &timeout at __NR_futex_time64 for 32bit arch and at
> > __NR_futex for 64bit arch.
>
> This is still broken when you disable CONFIG_COMPAT_32BIT_TIME,
> which disables all system calls that take time32 arguments.
>
> > This might be a simpler solution to the problem that you are facing but
> > I'm not entirely sure. Also, futex's selftests do use the timeout
> > argument and I think that they also won't compile in 32-bit RISC-V, so
> > maybe we can start from there so we can actually test the timeout
> > argument and check if it's working.
>
> I would love to see the wrapper that Alistair wrote as part of some kernel
> uapi header provided to user space. futex is used by tons of applications,
> and we never had a library abstraction for it, so everyone has to do these
> by hand, and they all get them slightly wrong in different ways.
>
> We normally don't do this in kernel headers, but I think the benefits
> would be far greater compared to today's situation.

I'm happy to prepare a patch, if others are on board with it being accepted.

Alistair

>
>       Arnd