From: David Laight <David.Laight@ACULAB.COM>
To: 'Arnd Bergmann' <arnd@kernel.org>
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Subject: RE: [PATCH] Adds a new ioctl32 syscall for backwards compatibility layers
Date: Fri, 15 Jan 2021 22:39:44 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <313c380c4b1b477fbd09aac66eed4505@AcuMS.aculab.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <CAK8P3a1gqt-gBCPTdNeY+8SaG8eUGN4zkCrNKSjA=aEL-TkaUQ@mail.gmail.com>
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> He's already doing the system call emulation for all the system
> calls other than ioctl in user space though. In my experience,
> there are actually fairly few ioctl commands that are different
> between architectures -- most of them have no misaligned
> or architecture-defined struct members at all.
Aren't there also some intractable issues with socket options?
IIRC the kernel code that tried to change them to 64bit was
horribly broken in some obscure cases.
Pushing the conversion down the stack not only identified the
issues, it also made them easier to fix.
If you change the kernel so a 64bit process can execute 32bit
system calls then a lot of the problems do go away.
This is probably easiest done by setting a high bit on the
system call number - as x86_64 does for x32 calls.
You still have to solve the different alignment of 64bit data
on i386.
Of course the system call numbers are different - but that is
just a lookup.
David
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2021-01-15 7:02 ` [PATCH] Adds a new ioctl32 syscall for backwards compatibility layers sonicadvance1
2021-01-15 7:17 ` [PATCH v2] " sonicadvance1
2021-01-15 20:01 ` [PATCH] " David Laight
2021-01-15 22:17 ` Arnd Bergmann
2021-01-15 22:23 ` Rich Felker
2021-01-15 22:39 ` David Laight [this message]
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