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From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
To: Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>
Cc: Mao Han <han_mao@c-sky.com>,
	gnu-csky@mentor.com,  GNU C Library <libc-alpha@sourceware.org>,
	c-sky_gcc_upstream@c-sky.com
Subject: Re: [gnu-csky] [PATCH v4 06/13] C-SKY: Linux ABI
Date: Thu, 13 Sep 2018 21:38:00 -0000	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CAK8P3a14ds=SuU0rD15cxP6LLpA8yQNnA4+VLF5juRLymSib-g@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <alpine.DEB.2.21.1809132045450.10670@digraph.polyomino.org.uk>

On Thu, Sep 13, 2018 at 10:48 PM Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> wrote:
>
> On Thu, 13 Sep 2018, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>
> > We have four definitions in the kernel for these structures: The native
> > structure for the ELF implementation [2], the generic compat implementation[3]
> > for everything other than MIPS, and the two MIPS variants [4][5].
> > Looking at the sources, the last three seem to use identical layouts,
> > aside from the elf_gregset_t, which uses 64-bit registers on n64 but
> > 32-bit registers everywhere else, and the architecture specific
> > ELF_NGREG constant.
>
> A 64-bit MIPS kernel is n64, not n32, so "unsigned long" in
> binfmt_elfn32.c is actually a 64-bit type for registers (as expected).
>
> I think this confirms that the other two n32 conditionals in
> sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/sys/procfs.h are incorrect, as they would
> result in a field having the size it does for n64, not that for n32.

Yes, that sounds right. From what I can tell, the n32 ABI has come
out of fashion a bit: the embedded stuff tends to be 32-bit only
so it uses o32, and the Debian and Fedora ports port do either
n64 or o32 but not n32. There was a partial Fedora 12 n32 port, but
that was 7 years ago.

        Arnd

  reply	other threads:[~2018-09-13 21:38 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 57+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-12  2:56 [PATCH v4 00/13] port C-SKY to glibc Mao Han
     [not found] ` <cover.1536720821.git.han_mao@c-sky.com>
2018-09-12  2:56   ` [PATCH v4 05/13] C-SKY: Linux Syscall Interface Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:56   ` [PATCH v4 01/13] C-SKY: ABI related code Mao Han
2018-09-12  4:16     ` H.J. Lu
2018-09-12  7:07       ` Mao Han
2018-09-12  8:23         ` Florian Weimer
2018-09-12  9:06           ` Mao Han
2018-09-29  1:46           ` Palmer Dabbelt
2018-09-30  9:04             ` Manuel A. Fernandez Montecelo
2018-10-01  8:18             ` Richard W.M. Jones
2018-09-17 21:46     ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-18  6:09       ` Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:56   ` [PATCH v4 03/13] C-SKY: Math support Mao Han
2018-09-17 21:49     ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-18  6:05       ` Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:56   ` [PATCH v4 02/13] C-SKY: TLS support Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:57   ` [PATCH v4 08/13] C-SKY: Linux Startup and Dynamic Loading Code Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:57   ` [PATCH v4 13/13] C-SKY: Skeleton documentation Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:57   ` [PATCH v4 06/13] C-SKY: Linux ABI Mao Han
2018-09-12 13:40     ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 14:21       ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-12 15:34         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-12 21:28           ` struct elf_prstatus and Y2038 (was: Re: [PATCH v4 06/13] C-SKY: Linux ABI) Florian Weimer
2018-09-13 10:48             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 10:56               ` struct elf_prstatus and Y2038 Florian Weimer
2018-09-13  8:17       ` [PATCH v4 06/13] C-SKY: Linux ABI Mao Han
2018-09-13  8:46         ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 15:32           ` [gnu-csky] " Joseph Myers
2018-09-13 16:35             ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-13 20:47               ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 20:59                 ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-13 21:32                   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 22:57                     ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-13 20:31             ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-13 20:49               ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-13 21:38                 ` Arnd Bergmann [this message]
2018-09-12  2:57   ` [PATCH v4 12/13] C-SKY: Add build-many-glibcs.py support Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:57   ` [PATCH v4 09/13] C-SKY: Add dynamic relocations to elf.h Mao Han
2018-09-12  2:57   ` [PATCH v4 11/13] C-SKY: Add ABI definitions in config.h.in Mao Han
2018-09-12  3:05   ` [PATCH v4 07/13] C-SKY: ABI Lists Mao Han
2018-09-12  6:51     ` Andreas Schwab
2018-09-12  7:12       ` Mao Han
2018-09-12 12:35       ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-12 13:46         ` Andreas Schwab
2018-09-12 15:19           ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-13  8:23         ` Mao Han
2018-09-12  3:05   ` [PATCH v4 04/13] C-SKY: NPTL support and Atomic Mao Han
2018-09-12  3:05   ` [PATCH v4 10/13] C-SKY: Build Infastructure Mao Han
2018-09-17 21:52     ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-18  6:02       ` Mao Han
2018-09-12  3:05 ` [PATCH 1/1] Update config.guess and config.sub to current versions Mao Han
2018-09-12 12:31 ` [PATCH v4 00/13] port C-SKY to glibc Joseph Myers
2018-09-13  8:14   ` Mao Han
2018-09-13 12:36     ` Joseph Myers
2018-09-18  6:22       ` Mao Han
2018-09-18  7:18         ` Mao Han
2018-09-18 11:43           ` Joseph Myers

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