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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: Adhemerval Zanella <adhemerval.zanella@linaro.org>
Cc: libc-alpha@sourceware.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH 1/4] Add INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL
Date: Thu, 22 Sep 2016 20:34:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87h997znb9.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <c2114f75-0e23-0636-32ed-0e879337a27d@linaro.org> (Adhemerval Zanella's message of "Thu, 22 Sep 2016 10:42:55 -0300")

* Adhemerval Zanella:

> We can, at least for x86_64 for instance where it uses another indirection
> for INTERNAL_SYSCALL.  However, something similar fails for i386, where
> macro substitution for INTERNAL_SYSCALL will try string concatenation and
> thus mess with intended behaviour.  Also, _SYSCALL_NARGS macro would be
> required to be different to take in consideration the 'err' argument
> required for INTERNAL syscall (something I noted I coded wrong).
>
> I think calling the {INLINE,INTERNAL}_SYSCALL directly would be the safer 
> and agnostic approach to avoid issues on how they are actually implemented 
> by each port.

Okay, it looks like this is the better way for now.

> I tested the following patch with a build for practically all current
> supported ports (aarch64, alpha, armeabi, armeaihf, hppa, ia64, i386, m68k,
> microblaze, mips{32,64,n64}, nios2, powerpc{32,64,64le}, s390{-32,-64}, sh4,
> sparc{64}, tile{pro,x64}, x86_64, and x32) and saw no build issues.  I also
> checked on x86_64 and i386.  To actually check INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL macro
> work I changed sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/pthread_setaffinity.c to use it.

Did you see object code changes from that?

  reply	other threads:[~2016-09-22 20:34 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 31+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2016-09-20 15:02 [PATCH 0/4] Linux lseek and {f}truncate syscall consolidation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-20 15:02 ` [PATCH 4/4] Consolidate Linux truncate implementations Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-22 14:25   ` Yury Norov
2016-09-22 14:42     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-22 15:52       ` Yury Norov
2016-09-22 19:05         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-25 17:55           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-09 13:44             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-20 15:02 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-20 21:36   ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-21 18:00     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-21 19:22       ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-22 13:43         ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-22 20:34           ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2016-09-23 14:16             ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-09-23 20:39               ` Florian Weimer
2016-09-20 15:02 ` [PATCH v3 2/4] Consolidate lseek/lseek64/llseek implementations Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-11 14:40   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-25 17:54     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-04 16:23       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-08 19:02         ` Steve Ellcey
2016-09-20 15:02 ` [PATCH 3/4] Consolidate Linux ftruncate implementations Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-11 14:41   ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-10-25 17:54     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-09 13:44       ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-11-09 15:33   ` Andreas Schwab
2016-11-09 17:24     ` Adhemerval Zanella
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2016-08-19 14:42 [PATCH 0/4] Linux fallocate, posix_fallocate, and posix_fadvise consolidation Adhemerval Zanella
2016-08-19 14:42 ` [PATCH 1/4] Add INTERNAL_SYSCALL_CALL Adhemerval Zanella
2016-08-22 15:28   ` Yury Norov
2016-08-23 19:16     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2016-08-23 19:20       ` Yury Norov

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