Re: [PATCH 1/2] arch: mark syscall number 435 reserved for clone3

From: Christian Brauner
Date: Fri Jul 19 2019 - 06:25:09 EST


On Fri, Jul 19, 2019 at 08:18:02PM +1000, Michael Ellerman wrote:
> Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx> writes:
> > On Mon, Jul 15, 2019 at 03:56:04PM +0200, Christian Borntraeger wrote:
> >> I think Vasily already has a clone3 patch for s390x with 435.
> >
> > A quick follow-up on this. Helge and Michael have asked whether there
> > are any tests for clone3. Yes, there will be and I try to have them
> > ready by the end of the this or next week for review. In the meantime I
> > hope the following minimalistic test program that just verifies very
> > very basic functionality (It's not pretty.) will help you test:
>
> Hi Christian,
>
> Thanks for the test.
>
> This actually oopses on powerpc, it hits the BUG_ON in CHECK_FULL_REGS
> in process.c around line 1633:
>
> } else {
> /* user thread */
> struct pt_regs *regs = current_pt_regs();
> CHECK_FULL_REGS(regs);
> *childregs = *regs;
> if (usp)
>
>
> So I'll have to dig into how we fix that before we wire up clone3.
>
> Turns out testing is good! :)

Indeed. I have a test-suite for clone3 in mind and I hope to have it
ready by the end of next week. It's just always the finding the time
part that is annoying. :)

Thanks for digging into this, Michael!
Christian