Re: [PATCH 1/3] nolibc: Add statx() support to implement sys_stat()

[Feiyang Chen]

On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 16:19, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
>
> On Wed, Feb 08, 2023 at 09:06:24AM +0100, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> > On Wed, Feb 8, 2023, at 08:42, Feiyang Chen wrote:
> > > On Wed, 8 Feb 2023 at 11:31, Willy Tarreau <w@xxxxxx> wrote:
> > >>
> > >> I generally agree with the Arnd's points overall and I'm fine with the
> > >> rest of your series. On this specific point, I'm fine with your proposal,
> > >> let's just start with sys_statx() only on this arch, please add a comment
> > >> about this possibility in the commit message that brings statx(),
> > >> indicating that other archs are likely to benefit from it as well, and
> > >> let's see after this if we can migrate all archs to statx.
> > >>
> > >
> > > We have a problem if we just start with sys_statx() only on this arch.
> > > When struct stat is not defined, what should we do with stat() in the
> > > nolibc selftest?
> >
> > To clarify: your proposed implementation of the stat() function that
> > fills the nolibc 'struct stat' based on information from 'struct statx'
> > is fine here. Just remove the 'struct sys_stat_struct' definition
> > loongarch but keep 'struct stat'.
>
> Ah I think now I understand the problem Feiyang is facing. Since "struct
> stat" is just between libc and userland, there's the "sys_stat_struct"
> that we're using to abstract the syscalls in sys_stat() and that is
> compatible with each variant of the stat() syscall on each arch. Here
> there's simply no stat() syscall so it's best not to try to abstract
> this function at all since types will not match between stat and statx,
> so it will be better to just implement it like this:
>
> #if defined(__NR_statx)
>     static __attribute__((unused))
>     int sys_stat(const char *path, struct stat *buf)
>     {
>        struct statx statx;
>        long ret;
>
>        ret = statx(...);
>        buf->xxx = statx.xxx;
>        ...
>        return ret;
>     }
> #else ...
>    // keep the regular sys_stat() here
> #endif
>
> Also looking at the man page I see that statx() only appeared in 4.11,
> and here we're targetting userland so I'd rather keep a bit of margin
> when it comes to backwards compatibility, thus not dropping stat() and
> friends too early when not necessary. However using statx() by default
> when available sounds fine to me!
>

Hi, Arnd, Willy,

I think I get it now, thank you!

Thanks,
Feiyang

> Cheers,
> Willy