Re: [PATCH RESEND^2] nios2: support clone3() syscall

From: Randy Dunlap
Date: Wed Aug 02 2023 - 11:43:38 EST




On 8/2/23 01:16, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wed, Aug 2, 2023, at 09:40, Christian Brauner wrote:
>> On Tue, Aug 01, 2023 at 10:19:24PM -0700, Randy Dunlap wrote:
>>> Add support for the clone3() syscall to prevent a warning from
>>> checksyscalls.sh:
>>>
>>> <stdin>:1517:2: warning: #warning syscall clone3 not implemented [-Wcpp]
>>>
>>> Signed-off-by: Randy Dunlap <rdunlap@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Dinh Nguyen <dinguyen@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> Cc: Christian Brauner <christian@xxxxxxxxxx>
>>> ---
>>> Is there some reason that NIOS2 should not (does not) support clone3()?
>>
>> Cc Arnd, in case he knows.
>
> As far as I remember, you left a few architectures without clone3
> during the introduction when there was neither an obvious way to
> handle the syscall entry nor a maintainer to have a look.
>
> Right now, it seems to be missing on alpha, hexagon, ia64,
> microblaze, nios2, sh and sparc.
>
> There are a few architectures that implement a custom entry
> point for both clone and clone3. The other architectures that
> provide the generic sys_clone3 also use the generic sys_clone.
> These are the wrappers I see:
>
> # ARC
> ENTRY(sys_clone3_wrapper)
> SAVE_CALLEE_SAVED_USER
> bl @sys_clone3
> DISCARD_CALLEE_SAVED_USER
>
> GET_CURR_THR_INFO_FLAGS r10
> and.f 0, r10, _TIF_SYSCALL_WORK
> bnz tracesys_exit
>
> b .Lret_from_system_call
> END(sys_clone3_wrapper)
>
> # m68k
> ENTRY(__sys_clone3)
> SAVE_SWITCH_STACK
> pea %sp@(SWITCH_STACK_SIZE)
> jbsr m68k_clone3
> lea %sp@(28),%sp
> rts
>
>
> # mips
> save_static_function(sys_clone3);
>
> # openrisc
> ENTRY(__sys_clone3)
> l.movhi r29,hi(sys_clone3)
> l.j _fork_save_extra_regs_and_call
> l.ori r29,r29,lo(sys_clone3)
>
> # parisc
> .macro fork_like name
> ENTRY_CFI(sys_\name\()_wrapper)
> mfctl %cr30,%r1
> ldo TASK_REGS(%r1),%r1
> reg_save %r1
> mfctl %cr27, %r28
> ldil L%sys_\name, %r31
> be R%sys_\name(%sr4,%r31)
> STREG %r28, PT_CR27(%r1)
> ENDPROC_CFI(sys_\name\()_wrapper)
> .endm
> fork_like clone
> fork_like clone3
>
> Nios3 in turn has a wrapper for sys_clone:
> ENTRY(sys_clone)
> SAVE_SWITCH_STACK
> subi sp, sp, 4 /* make space for tls pointer */
> stw r8, 0(sp) /* pass tls pointer (r8) via stack (5th argument) */
> call nios2_clone
> addi sp, sp, 4
> RESTORE_SWITCH_STACK
> ret
>
> so my guess would be that it needs the same thing
> for clone3 as well. Same thing on alpha, ia64 and
> sparc. On the other hand hexagon, microblaze and sh
> use the generic sys_clone() and can probably just
> enable sys_clone3() without extra work unless it's
> already broken.

OK, thanks for the help.

--
~Randy