Re: Another COMPAT_* question

[Paul Goyette <paul%whooppee.com@localhost>]

On Tue, 19 Feb 2013, Paul Goyette wrote:

> I've got this one image which is available only as a binary, and it is a 
> statically linked NetBSD-4.0 image
>
>         dnetc.x86_64: ELF 64-bit LSB executable, x86-64, version 1 (SYSV),
>         statically linked, for NetBSD 4.0, stripped
>
> If I run this on a 6.99.17 kernel built from today's sources, and that kernel 
> includes COMPAT_40, COMPAT_50, and COMPAT_60, the image starts up correctly.
>
> However, if I boot a kernel which is identical except for those three 
> COMPAT_* options, and then I modload the compat module, the same image fails. 
> Using ktrace, it would seem that there is some sysctl variable missing from 
> the compat module.
>
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 CALL  compat_50_gettimeofday(0x7f7fffffd670,0)
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 RET   compat_50_gettimeofday 0
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 CALL 
> __sysctl(0x7f7fffffd6a0,2,0x7f7fffffd680,0x7f7fffffd698,0,0)
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 RET   __sysctl -1 errno 2 No such file or 
> directory
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 CALL  write(2,0x7f7fffffcd10,0x24)
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 GIO   fd 2 wrote 36 bytes
>       "dnetc: Unable to initialize timers.\n"
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 RET   write 36/0x24
>  1043      1 dnetc.x86_64 CALL  exit(0xffffffff)
>
>
> Is there any reasonable way to figure out which sysctl variable is missing?

Well, this was easy!

With each kernel booted, I simply used 'sysctl -ad' to get a listing of 
all the variables.  Then a diff showed me that the only ones missing 
from the loaded-module was kern.oboottime and net.oroute.stats

Now the real question begs, should the compat module provide either or 
both of these sysctl()s?


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