Re: [PATCH] ia64: enable HAVE_COPY_THREAD_TLS, switch to kernel_clone_args

From: John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
Date: Thu May 14 2020 - 06:08:36 EST


On 5/14/20 12:04 PM, Christian Brauner wrote:
> So that's interesting because systemd doesn't support itanium correctly afaict.
> They have a raw_clone() function that they use which is not tailored to
> ia64. __NR_clone should be defined as so to hit clone2() but they don't
> pass a stack size argument down which is invalid on ia64:
Ah, I wasn't aware of this limitation. I'm surprised the systemd testsuite passes
then on ia64.

On sparc64, Michael Karcher provided the hand-written assembly you quoted to
fix the raw_clone() on this architecture.

I assume we could do the same on ia64?

Adrian

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