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From: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>,
	Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 07/15] Use semget syscall for Linux implementation
Date: Tue, 01 Nov 2016 17:17:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <0b9aa220-370a-a196-8640-a65b46b3c344@linaro.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.20.1611011638350.21300@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>



On 01/11/2016 14:40, Joseph Myers wrote:
> On Tue, 1 Nov 2016, Andreas Schwab wrote:
> 
>> On Nov 01 2016, Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org> wrote:
>>
>>> This patch add a direct call to semget syscall if it is defined by
>>> kernel headers.
>>
>> That does not mean that the running kernel provides it.
> 
> Specifically, this sort of patch series needs to be accompanied by an 
> analysis of when the relevant syscalls were added for each supported 
> architecture (and subarchitecture for cases with multiple syscall tables 
> for different ABNs).  If present (in the syscall table as well as in 
> asm/unistd.h) in the minimum kernel version, OK, otherwise you need 
> appropriate __ASSUME_* conditionals (even if not present in the latest 
> kernel, it might be added in future, so you should have those conditionals 
> now to avoid breaking things when current glibc is compiled with future 
> kernel headers).

Indeed, I did not consider the case of latest kernel headers.  Based
on current Linux approach and historical implementation for sysv IPC
I think we can assume that either the kernel only supports the old
'ipc' syscall or all the sysvipc syscall wire-up.  Do you know if we
do require an __ASSUME for each syscall?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-11-01 17:17 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 21+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-11-01 14:25 [PATCH 00/15] Consolidate Linux sysvipc implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 06/15] Consolidate Linux semctl implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 04/15] Use msgget syscall for Linux implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 08/15] Use semop " Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 05/15] Add SYSV message queue test Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 14/15] Use shmget syscall for linux implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 09/15] Consolidate Linux semtimedop implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 01/15] Consolidate Linux msgctl implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 15/15] Add SYSV shared memory test Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 13/15] Use shmdt syscall for linux implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 10/15] Add SYSV semaphore test Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 07/15] Use semget syscall for Linux implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 15:34   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-01 16:41     ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-01 17:17       ` Adhemerval Zanella [this message]
2016-11-01 17:28         ` Zack Weinberg
2016-11-01 17:35         ` Joseph Myers
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 03/15] Use msgsnd " Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 12/15] Consolidate Linux shmctl implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 11/15] Use shmat syscall for Linux implementation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-01 14:25 ` [PATCH 02/15] Consolidate Linux msgrcv implementation Adhemerval Zanella

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