Re: [PATCH v3 0/5] Add LoongArch support to nolibc

From: Willy Tarreau
Date: Wed Feb 08 2023 - 22:36:14 EST


Hi Feiyang,

On Thu, Feb 09, 2023 at 11:24:11AM +0800, chris.chenfeiyang@xxxxxxxxx wrote:
> From: Feiyang Chen <chenfeiyang@xxxxxxxxxxx>
>
> Add statx() and make stat() rely on statx() if necessary.
> Add support for LoongArch (32 and 64 bit) to nolibc.
> It was tested on LoongArch64 only.
>
> The latest QEMU support full-system emulation of a LoongArch64
> machine, but for the moment we need to specify the firmware manually.
> https://github.com/loongson/Firmware/tree/main/LoongArchVirtMachine
>
> QEMU_ARGS_loongarch = -M virt -bios edk2-loongarch64-code.fd ...
>
> v2:
> - Mention that statx() will also benefit other architectures.
> - Make stat() rely on statx() when available.
> - Put the whitespace changes into one commit.
>
> v3:
> - Add #if defined(__NR_statx) guard.
> - Keep the check for statx() from the first version.
> - Mention that we may use statx() everywhere in the future.
> - struct statx stat -> struct statx statx.

I'm personally fine with this one. I'll give it a try with all supported
archs to make sure we don't have any unexpected side effect, and unless
anyone has any other comment, we'll queue this series.

Thank you!
Willy