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Message-ID: <ZJsRHzDbuTlXKNCG@antec>
Date: Tue, 27 Jun 2023 17:41:03 +0100
From: Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
To: Szabolcs Nagy <nsz@...t70.net>
Cc: LKML <linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org>,
Linux OpenRISC <linux-openrisc@...r.kernel.org>,
Jonas Bonn <jonas@...thpole.se>,
Stefan Kristiansson <stefan.kristiansson@...nalahti.fi>,
Eric Biederman <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
Kees Cook <keescook@...omium.org>,
"Jason A. Donenfeld" <Jason@...c4.com>,
Dominik Brodowski <linux@...inikbrodowski.net>,
linux-mm@...ck.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 3/4] openrisc: Support floating point user api
On Mon, Jun 26, 2023 at 11:38:40PM +0200, Szabolcs Nagy wrote:
> * Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com> [2023-04-18 17:58:12 +0100]:
> > Add support for handling floating point exceptions and forwarding the
> > SIGFPE signal to processes. Also, add fpu state to sigcontext.
> >
> > Signed-off-by: Stafford Horne <shorne@...il.com>
> > ---
> ...
> > --- a/arch/openrisc/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
> > +++ b/arch/openrisc/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h
> > @@ -28,6 +28,7 @@
> >
> > struct sigcontext {
> > struct user_regs_struct regs; /* needs to be first */
> > + struct __or1k_fpu_state fpu;
> > unsigned long oldmask;
> > };
>
> this seems to break userspace abi.
> glibc and musl have or1k abi without this field.
>
> either this is a new abi where binaries opt-in with some marking
> and then the base sigcontext should be unmodified,
>
> or the fp state needs to be added to the signal frame in a way that
> does not break existing abi (e.g. end of the struct ?) and also
> advertise the new thing via a hwcap, otherwise userspace cannot
> make use of it.
>
> unless i'm missing something.
I think you are right, I meant to look into this but it must have slipped
though. Is this something causing you issues or did you just notice it?
I didn't run into issues when running the glibc test suite, but I may have
missed it.
Just moving this to the end of the sigcontext may be all that is needed.
-Stafford
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