Subject: Re: Mapping 2 compat linux32 syscalls on a single native one
To: Christos Zoulas <christos@astron.com>
From: Nicolas Joly <njoly@pasteur.fr>
List: tech-kern
Date: 01/29/2007 17:06:33
On Mon, Jan 29, 2007 at 03:50:12PM +0000, Christos Zoulas wrote:
> In article <20070129152622.GA437890@medusa.sis.pasteur.fr>,
> Nicolas Joly  <njoly@pasteur.fr> wrote:
> >
> >Hi,
> >
> >I encountered a small problem while trying to map 2 amd64 compat
> >linux32 syscalls (linux32_sys_exit and linux32_sys_exit_groups) on the
> >native sys_exit one.
> >
> >1       NOARGS  { int sys_exit(int rval); }
> >252     NOARGS  { int sys_exit(int rval); }
> >
> >Unfortunately this won't work, because of LINUX32_SYS_exit multiple
> >definitions ...
> >
> >njoly@lanfeust [arch/amd64]> grep LINUX32_SYS_exit linux32_syscall.h
> >#define LINUX32_SYS_exit        1
> >#define LINUX32_SYS_exit        252
> >
> >Then i changed the second call from NOARGS to NODEF, but this doesn't
> >work either because of `sys_exit_args' redefinition.
> >
> >In file included from ./machine/linux32_machdep.h:11,
> >                 from /tmp/genassym.7132/assym.c:27:
> >/local/src/NetBSD/src/sys/compat/linux32/arch/amd64/linux32_syscallargs.h:402:
> >error: redefinition of 'struct sys_exit_args'
> >
> >I think that i need both NODEF and NOARGS to handle this
> >case. Unfortunately, setting both flags at the same time does not
> >seems to be supported.
> >
> >For now, i use a dummy linux32_sys_exit_group(), which only calls
> >sys_exit() ...
> >
> >252     NOARGS  { int linux32_sys_exit_group(int error_code); }
> >
> >int
> >linux32_sys_exit_group(l, v, retval)
> >        struct lwp *l;
> >        void *v;
> >        register_t *retval;
> >{
> >        return sys_exit(l, v, retval);
> >}
> >
> >Is there a better way to handle this ?
> 
> There is an implementation already for exit_group that kills all threads
> in a process in compat/linux/common. Why don't you use this?

64 bits compat linux use NPTL, but compat linux32 do not. This leads
to problems for 32 bits linux threaded programs that i'm trying to
debug and fix.

-- 
Nicolas Joly

Biological Software and Databanks.
Institut Pasteur, Paris.