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From: Florian Weimer <fw@deneb.enyo.de>
To: "H.J. Lu via Libc-alpha" <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>
Cc: Andreas Schwab <schwab@linux-m68k.org>,  "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: V3 [PATCH] Add a C wrapper for prctl [BZ #25896]
Date: Thu, 30 Apr 2020 18:53:31 +0200	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <87wo5w7w50.fsf@mid.deneb.enyo.de> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAMe9rOok1_-PuzwExk+XZJ_KyE01keNstYAGS9GR9gn6GFHxvg@mail.gmail.com> (H. J. Lu via Libc-alpha's message of "Thu, 30 Apr 2020 08:27:59 -0700")

* H. J. Lu via Libc-alpha:

> From ee8672af3ef5f3db438c0abb39b2673944181292 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
> From: "H.J. Lu" <hjl.tools@gmail.com>
> Date: Wed, 29 Apr 2020 07:38:49 -0700
> Subject: [PATCH] Add a C wrapper for prctl [BZ #25896]
>
> Add a C wrapper to pass arguments in

The commit message is only correct if you drop the .S files.

> /* Control process execution.  */
> extern int prctl (int __option, ...) __THROW;
>
> to prctl syscall:
>
> extern int prctl (int, unsigned long int, unsigned long int,
> 		  unsigned long int, unsigned long int);
>
> On Linux/x86, since the prctl syscall interface:
>
> extern int prctl (int, unsigned long int, unsigned long int,
> 		  unsigned long int, unsigned long int);
>
> and the glibc prctl interface:
>
> extern int prctl (int option, ...);
>
> pass the arguments identically, the assembly verion:
>
> PSEUDO (__prctl, prctl, 5)
> 	ret
> PSEUDO_END (__prctl)
>
> is used.

Doesn't x86 include x32?

Apart from these nits, the patch looks good.  Please settle the matter
of the .S files with Adhemerval. 8-)

  reply	other threads:[~2020-04-30 16:53 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 30+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-04-29 20:52 H.J. Lu
2020-04-30  7:26 ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 13:03   ` V2 " H.J. Lu
2020-04-30 13:41     ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-30 13:43       ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 13:50         ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-30 13:51         ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-30 13:53           ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-30 14:04             ` Andreas Schwab
2020-04-30 15:27               ` V3 " H.J. Lu
2020-04-30 16:53                 ` Florian Weimer [this message]
2020-04-30 17:20                   ` [PATCH] Add a " H.J. Lu
2020-04-30 20:01                 ` V3 [PATCH] Add a C " Florian Weimer
2022-11-10  8:33                 ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-10 11:49                   ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-11-10 12:03                     ` Florian Weimer
2022-11-10 12:25                       ` Adhemerval Zanella Netto
2022-11-10 13:17                         ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 13:54           ` V2 " Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 14:51     ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-30 16:35       ` H.J. Lu
2020-04-30 16:51         ` Florian Weimer
2020-04-30 17:24           ` Adhemerval Zanella
2020-04-30 17:29             ` V4 " H.J. Lu
     [not found]               ` <c2a821bf-fd2a-0ed9-2ad9-c4bd1231b2a7@linux.ibm.com>
     [not found]                 ` <CAMe9rOq60aAKujxFF=bSyN5yPZVWSa-KWKWXKHpB8uOKu5V-7w@mail.gmail.com>
2020-04-30 22:57                   ` Bad LOADARGS_N on PPC H.J. Lu
2020-05-01  2:03                     ` Tulio Magno Quites Machado Filho
2020-05-01  2:18                       ` [PATCH] powerpc: Rename argN to _argN in LOADARGS_N [BZ #25902] H.J. Lu
2020-05-01 23:11                         ` Please test: [2.31/2.30] " H.J. Lu
2020-05-04 16:00                           ` Matheus Castanho
2020-05-04 19:11                             ` H.J. Lu

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