[Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Marlies Ruck]

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Hi,

Attached is a patch to let guest programs use SIGRTMIN + 1 by swapping with
SIGRTMAX - 1. Since QEMU links against glibc, it reserves the signal for
itself and returns EINVAL (as noted in the commit message). This means
various applications that use SIGRTMIN + 1 cannot run on QEMU, including
G-WAN web server and Open TFTP.

Thanks,
Marli

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From 096c244668345f80a4582799d0b860b7c20a9b59 Mon Sep 17 00:00:00 2001
From: marlies ruck <marlies@forallsecure.com>
Date: Fri, 21 Jun 2019 14:42:42 -0700
Subject: [PATCH] Swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

We already have a hack whereby we flip the guest's SIGRTMAX and SIGRTMIN
signals, to avoid a collision between guest use of SIGRTMIN and the host
libc use of it for SIGCANCEL. However newer glibc also uses SIGRTMIN+1
for internal purposes (as SIGSETXID). Reverse SIGRTMIN+1 and SIGRTMAX-1
so the guest can successfully use SIGRTMIN+1.

This didn't cause any immediately observed issues in guests because glibc
does not check the return value when it registers a SIGSETXID handler(!).
However it meant that if a guest program with more than one thread issued
a setuid() syscall it would hang.

Credit: Peter Maydell https://patches.linaro.org/patch/63313/
Signed-off-by: marlies ruck <marlies@forallsecure.com>
---
 linux-user/signal.c | 6 +++++-
 1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/linux-user/signal.c b/linux-user/signal.c
index 5cd237834d..137a449140 100644
--- a/linux-user/signal.c
+++ b/linux-user/signal.c
@@ -75,8 +75,12 @@ static uint8_t host_to_target_signal_table[_NSIG] = {
     /* Nasty hack: Reverse SIGRTMIN and SIGRTMAX to avoid overlap with
        host libpthread signals.  This assumes no one actually uses SIGRTMAX :-/
        To fix this properly we need to do manual signal delivery multiplexed
-       over a single host signal.  */
+       over a single host signal.
+       Similarly we reverse SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1, because
+       host glibc uses SIGRTMIN+1 for SIGSETXID. */
     [__SIGRTMIN] = __SIGRTMAX,
+    [__SIGRTMIN + 1] = __SIGRTMAX - 1,
+    [__SIGRTMAX - 1] = __SIGRTMIN + 1,
     [__SIGRTMAX] = __SIGRTMIN,
 };
 static uint8_t target_to_host_signal_table[_NSIG];
-- 
2.20.1 (Apple Git-117)

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Marlies Ruck]

Hi,

I just wanted to follow up since I sent this patch a week ago to make sure
it was a received.  An ack would be appreciated.

Thanks,
Marli

On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:58 PM Marlies Ruck <marlies.ruck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi,
>
> Attached is a patch to let guest programs use SIGRTMIN + 1 by swapping
> with SIGRTMAX - 1. Since QEMU links against glibc, it reserves the signal
> for itself and returns EINVAL (as noted in the commit message). This means
> various applications that use SIGRTMIN + 1 cannot run on QEMU, including
> G-WAN web server and Open TFTP.
>
> Thanks,
> Marli
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Philippe Mathieu-Daudé]

Hi Marlies,

On 6/29/19 1:26 AM, Marlies Ruck wrote:
> Hi,
> 
> I just wanted to follow up since I sent this patch a week ago to make sure
> it was a received.  An ack would be appreciated.

You did not Cc'ed the maintainer, so he likely missed it.
See:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#CC_the_relevant_maintainer

$ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f linux-user/signal.c
Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> (maintainer:Linux user)
Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> (reviewer:Linux user)

BTW you should also look at the next paragraph in this wiki page:
https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Do_not_send_as_an_attachment

Since you credit Peter Maydell, it would be kind to Cc him too.

I Cc'ed Riku/Laurent/Peter for you now.

Regards,

Phil.

> On Fri, Jun 21, 2019 at 3:58 PM Marlies Ruck <marlies.ruck@gmail.com> wrote:
> 
>> Hi,
>>
>> Attached is a patch to let guest programs use SIGRTMIN + 1 by swapping
>> with SIGRTMAX - 1. Since QEMU links against glibc, it reserves the signal
>> for itself and returns EINVAL (as noted in the commit message). This means
>> various applications that use SIGRTMIN + 1 cannot run on QEMU, including
>> G-WAN web server and Open TFTP.
>>
>> Thanks,
>> Marli
>>

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Peter Maydell]

On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 11:53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com> wrote:
>
> Hi Marlies,
>
> On 6/29/19 1:26 AM, Marlies Ruck wrote:
> > Hi,
> >
> > I just wanted to follow up since I sent this patch a week ago to make sure
> > it was a received.  An ack would be appreciated.
>
> You did not Cc'ed the maintainer, so he likely missed it.
> See:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#CC_the_relevant_maintainer
>
> $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f linux-user/signal.c
> Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> (maintainer:Linux user)
> Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> (reviewer:Linux user)
>
> BTW you should also look at the next paragraph in this wiki page:
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Do_not_send_as_an_attachment
>
> Since you credit Peter Maydell, it would be kind to Cc him too.

I have a strong suspicion that if we applied this patch it would
break running a pile of Go binaries that currently work, which means
it's something we need to be cautious about. (The Go runtime special
cases the fact that when it tries to register some signals they don't
work, but will abort on startup I think if it can't register a handler
for SIGRTMAX-1, which will be the case after this patch.)

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Marlies Ruck]

Hi All,

You are correct, this would break Go binaries.  I was planning on
submitting a PR to the Go runtime if my patch was accepted to QEMU.  The Go
PR would ignore the failure to register a handler for SIGRTMAX - 1, just as
it currently ignores the failure on SIGRTMAX (
https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/os_linux.go#L443).
Does this seem reasonable to you?  My local set up has these patches to
QEMU and Go and it allows me to run both Go guest programs, and guest
programs that use SIGRTMIN + 1.

Also, thank you Peter and Phil for your patience as this is my first time
contributing to QEMU.  If you decide to use this patch, I'm happy to resend
the patch via `git send email`.

Thanks!
Marli



On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:08 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
wrote:

> On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 11:53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
> wrote:
> >
> > Hi Marlies,
> >
> > On 6/29/19 1:26 AM, Marlies Ruck wrote:
> > > Hi,
> > >
> > > I just wanted to follow up since I sent this patch a week ago to make
> sure
> > > it was a received.  An ack would be appreciated.
> >
> > You did not Cc'ed the maintainer, so he likely missed it.
> > See:
> > https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#CC_the_relevant_maintainer
> >
> > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f linux-user/signal.c
> > Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> (maintainer:Linux user)
> > Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> (reviewer:Linux user)
> >
> > BTW you should also look at the next paragraph in this wiki page:
> >
> https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Do_not_send_as_an_attachment
> >
> > Since you credit Peter Maydell, it would be kind to Cc him too.
>
> I have a strong suspicion that if we applied this patch it would
> break running a pile of Go binaries that currently work, which means
> it's something we need to be cautious about. (The Go runtime special
> cases the fact that when it tries to register some signals they don't
> work, but will abort on startup I think if it can't register a handler
> for SIGRTMAX-1, which will be the case after this patch.)
>
> thanks
> -- PMM
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Marlies Ruck]

Hi,

Just wanted to follow up to see what your thoughts are.  Is it preferable
if I submit a PR to the Go runtime first?  That would mitigate concerns
about Go breaking on QEMU with this patch.

Thanks,
Marli

On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 3:04 PM Marlies Ruck <marlies.ruck@gmail.com> wrote:

> Hi All,
>
> You are correct, this would break Go binaries.  I was planning on
> submitting a PR to the Go runtime if my patch was accepted to QEMU.  The Go
> PR would ignore the failure to register a handler for SIGRTMAX - 1, just as
> it currently ignores the failure on SIGRTMAX (
> https://github.com/golang/go/blob/master/src/runtime/os_linux.go#L443).
> Does this seem reasonable to you?  My local set up has these patches to
> QEMU and Go and it allows me to run both Go guest programs, and guest
> programs that use SIGRTMIN + 1.
>
> Also, thank you Peter and Phil for your patience as this is my first time
> contributing to QEMU.  If you decide to use this patch, I'm happy to resend
> the patch via `git send email`.
>
> Thanks!
> Marli
>
>
>
> On Mon, Jul 1, 2019 at 2:08 AM Peter Maydell <peter.maydell@linaro.org>
> wrote:
>
>> On Sat, 29 Jun 2019 at 11:53, Philippe Mathieu-Daudé <philmd@redhat.com>
>> wrote:
>> >
>> > Hi Marlies,
>> >
>> > On 6/29/19 1:26 AM, Marlies Ruck wrote:
>> > > Hi,
>> > >
>> > > I just wanted to follow up since I sent this patch a week ago to make
>> sure
>> > > it was a received.  An ack would be appreciated.
>> >
>> > You did not Cc'ed the maintainer, so he likely missed it.
>> > See:
>> >
>> https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#CC_the_relevant_maintainer
>> >
>> > $ ./scripts/get_maintainer.pl -f linux-user/signal.c
>> > Riku Voipio <riku.voipio@iki.fi> (maintainer:Linux user)
>> > Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> (reviewer:Linux user)
>> >
>> > BTW you should also look at the next paragraph in this wiki page:
>> >
>> https://wiki.qemu.org/Contribute/SubmitAPatch#Do_not_send_as_an_attachment
>> >
>> > Since you credit Peter Maydell, it would be kind to Cc him too.
>>
>> I have a strong suspicion that if we applied this patch it would
>> break running a pile of Go binaries that currently work, which means
>> it's something we need to be cautious about. (The Go runtime special
>> cases the fact that when it tries to register some signals they don't
>> work, but will abort on startup I think if it can't register a handler
>> for SIGRTMAX-1, which will be the case after this patch.)
>>
>> thanks
>> -- PMM
>>
>

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel]

Hi all,

I have also experienced issues with SIGRTMIN + 1, and am interested in
moving this patch forwards. Anything I can do here to help? Would the
maintainers prefer myself or Marli re-submit the patch?

The Go issue here seems particularly sticky. Even if we update the Go
runtime, users may try and run older binaries built with older versions of
Go for quite some time (months? years?). Would it be better to hide this
behind some kind of build-time flag (`--enable-sigrtmin-plus-one-proxy` or
something), so that some users can opt-in, but older binaries still work as
expected?

Also, here is a link to the original thread this message is in reply to
in-case my mail-client doesn't set up the reply properly:
https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01303.html

Thanks,
Josh Kunz

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 19/08/2019 à 23:46, Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel a écrit :
> Hi all,
> 
> I have also experienced issues with SIGRTMIN + 1, and am interested in
> moving this patch forwards. Anything I can do here to help? Would the
> maintainers prefer myself or Marli re-submit the patch?
> 
> The Go issue here seems particularly sticky. Even if we update the Go
> runtime, users may try and run older binaries built with older versions of
> Go for quite some time (months? years?). Would it be better to hide this
> behind some kind of build-time flag (`--enable-sigrtmin-plus-one-proxy` or
> something), so that some users can opt-in, but older binaries still work as
> expected?
> 
> Also, here is a link to the original thread this message is in reply to
> in-case my mail-client doesn't set up the reply properly:
> https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01303.html

The problem here is we break something to fix something else.

I'm wondering if the series from Aleksandar Markovic, "linux-user:
Support signal passing for targets having more signals than host" [1]
can fix the problem in a better way?

Thanks,
Laurent
[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1103565/

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel]

On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:28 AM Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu> wrote:

> Le 19/08/2019 à 23:46, Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel a écrit :
> > Hi all,
> >
> > I have also experienced issues with SIGRTMIN + 1, and am interested in
> > moving this patch forwards. Anything I can do here to help? Would the
> > maintainers prefer myself or Marli re-submit the patch?
> >
> > The Go issue here seems particularly sticky. Even if we update the Go
> > runtime, users may try and run older binaries built with older versions
> of
> > Go for quite some time (months? years?). Would it be better to hide this
> > behind some kind of build-time flag (`--enable-sigrtmin-plus-one-proxy`
> or
> > something), so that some users can opt-in, but older binaries still work
> as
> > expected?
> >
> > Also, here is a link to the original thread this message is in reply to
> > in-case my mail-client doesn't set up the reply properly:
> > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01303.html
>
> The problem here is we break something to fix something else.
>
> I'm wondering if the series from Aleksandar Markovic, "linux-user:
> Support signal passing for targets having more signals than host" [1]
> can fix the problem in a better way?
>

That patch[1] (which I'll refer to as the MUX patch to avoid confusion)
does not directly fix the issue addressed by this patch (re-wiring
SIGRTMIN+1), but since it basically implements generic signal multiplexing,
it could be re-worked to address this case as well. The way it handles
`si_code` spooks me a little bit. It could easily be broken by a kernel
version change, and such a breakage could be hard to detect or lead to
surprising results. Other than that, it looks like a reasonable
implementation.

That said, overall, fixing the SIGRTMIN+1 issue using a more-generic
signal-multiplexing mechanism doesn't seem *that* much better to me. It
adds a lot of complexity, and only saves a single signal (assuming glibc
doesn't add more reserved signals). The "big win" is additional emulation
features, like those introduced in MUX patch (being able to utilize signals
outside of the host range). If having those features in QEMU warrants the
additional complexity, then re-working this patch on-top of that
infrastructure seems like a good idea.

If the maintainers want to go down that route, then I would be happy to
re-work this patch utilizing the infrastructure from the MUX patch.
Unfortunately it will require non-trivial changes, so it may be best to
wait until that patch is merged. I could also provide a patch "on top of"
the MUX patch, if that's desired/more convenient.

Just one last note, if you do decide to merge the MUX patch, then it would
be best to use SIGRTMAX (instead of SIGRTMAX-1) as the multiplexing signal
if possible, to avoid breaking go binaries.

Thanks again for taking a look at this issue.

Cheers,
Josh Kunz

[1] http://patchwork.ozlabs.org/cover/1103565/

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Peter Maydell]

On Mon, 26 Aug 2019 at 22:10, Josh Kunz <jkz@google.com> wrote:
> That said, overall, fixing the SIGRTMIN+1 issue using a more-generic signal-multiplexing mechanism doesn't seem *that* much better to me. It adds a lot of complexity, and only saves a single signal (assuming glibc doesn't add more reserved signals). The "big win" is additional emulation features, like those introduced in MUX patch (being able to utilize signals outside of the host range). If having those features in QEMU warrants the additional complexity, then re-working this patch on-top of that infrastructure seems like a good idea.

It has the huge advantage that it doesn't break existing working
binaries. That's the main reason we've never applied the 'just
swap another couple of signals' patch. The other possible
approach for avoiding binary breakage would be to silently
ignore attempts to set handlers for the signals QEMU uses,
rather than failing them. I'm not sure what fallout that
might have, though...

thanks
-- PMM

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Laurent Vivier]

Le 26/08/2019 à 23:10, Josh Kunz a écrit :
> On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:28 AM Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu
> <mailto:laurent@vivier.eu>> wrote:
> 
>     Le 19/08/2019 à 23:46, Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel a écrit :
>     > Hi all,
>     >
>     > I have also experienced issues with SIGRTMIN + 1, and am interested in
>     > moving this patch forwards. Anything I can do here to help? Would the
>     > maintainers prefer myself or Marli re-submit the patch?
>     >
>     > The Go issue here seems particularly sticky. Even if we update the Go
>     > runtime, users may try and run older binaries built with older
>     versions of
>     > Go for quite some time (months? years?). Would it be better to
>     hide this
>     > behind some kind of build-time flag
>     (`--enable-sigrtmin-plus-one-proxy` or
>     > something), so that some users can opt-in, but older binaries
>     still work as
>     > expected?
>     >
>     > Also, here is a link to the original thread this message is in
>     reply to
>     > in-case my mail-client doesn't set up the reply properly:
>     > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01303.html
> 
>     The problem here is we break something to fix something else.
> 
>     I'm wondering if the series from Aleksandar Markovic, "linux-user:
>     Support signal passing for targets having more signals than host" [1]
>     can fix the problem in a better way?
> 
> 
> That patch[1] (which I'll refer to as the MUX patch to avoid confusion)
> does not directly fix the issue addressed by this patch (re-wiring
> SIGRTMIN+1), but since it basically implements generic signal
> multiplexing, it could be re-worked to address this case as well. The
> way it handles `si_code` spooks me a little bit. It could easily be
> broken by a kernel version change, and such a breakage could be hard to
> detect or lead to surprising results. Other than that, it looks like a
> reasonable implementation.
> 
> That said, overall, fixing the SIGRTMIN+1 issue using a more-generic
> signal-multiplexing mechanism doesn't seem *that* much better to me. It
> adds a lot of complexity, and only saves a single signal (assuming glibc
> doesn't add more reserved signals). The "big win" is additional
> emulation features, like those introduced in MUX patch (being able to
> utilize signals outside of the host range). If having those features in
> QEMU warrants the additional complexity, then re-working this patch
> on-top of that infrastructure seems like a good idea.
> 
> If the maintainers want to go down that route, then I would be happy to
> re-work this patch utilizing the infrastructure from the MUX patch.
> Unfortunately it will require non-trivial changes, so it may be best to
> wait until that patch is merged. I could also provide a patch "on top
> of" the MUX patch, if that's desired/more convenient.
> 
> Just one last note, if you do decide to merge the MUX patch, then it
> would be best to use SIGRTMAX (instead of SIGRTMAX-1) as the
> multiplexing signal if possible, to avoid breaking go binaries.
> 

Personally, I prefer a solution that breaks nothing.

Aleksandar, Milos,

do you have an updated version of you series "Support signal passing for
targets having more signals than host"?

Thanks,
Laurent

Re: [Qemu-devel] [EXTERNAL]Re: patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Aleksandar Markovic]

> From: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
> Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:51 AM
> To: Josh Kunz; Aleksandar Markovic; milos.stojanovic@rt-rk.com
> Cc: marlies.ruck@gmail.com; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; riku.voipio@iki.fi; > qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Peter Maydell; Shu-Chun Weng; Aleksandar Markovic
> Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1
> 
> Le 26/08/2019 à 23:10, Josh Kunz a écrit :
> > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:28 AM Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu
> > <mailto:laurent@vivier.eu>> wrote:
> >
> >     Le 19/08/2019 à 23:46, Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel a écrit :
> >     > Hi all,
> >     >
> >     > I have also experienced issues with SIGRTMIN + 1, and am interested in
> >     > moving this patch forwards. Anything I can do here to help? Would the
> >     > maintainers prefer myself or Marli re-submit the patch?
> >     >
> >     > The Go issue here seems particularly sticky. Even if we update the Go
> >     > runtime, users may try and run older binaries built with older
> >     versions of
> >     > Go for quite some time (months? years?). Would it be better to
> >     hide this
> >     > behind some kind of build-time flag
> >     (`--enable-sigrtmin-plus-one-proxy` or
> >     > something), so that some users can opt-in, but older binaries
> >     still work as
> >     > expected?
> >     >
> >     > Also, here is a link to the original thread this message is in
> >     reply to
> >     > in-case my mail-client doesn't set up the reply properly:
> >     > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-07/msg01303.html
> >
> >     The problem here is we break something to fix something else.
> >
> >     I'm wondering if the series from Aleksandar Markovic, "linux-user:
> >     Support signal passing for targets having more signals than host" [1]
> >     can fix the problem in a better way?
> >
> >
> > That patch[1] (which I'll refer to as the MUX patch to avoid confusion)
> > does not directly fix the issue addressed by this patch (re-wiring
> > SIGRTMIN+1), but since it basically implements generic signal
> > multiplexing, it could be re-worked to address this case as well. The
> > way it handles `si_code` spooks me a little bit. It could easily be
> > broken by a kernel version change, and such a breakage could be hard to
> > detect or lead to surprising results. Other than that, it looks like a
> > reasonable implementation.
> >
> > That said, overall, fixing the SIGRTMIN+1 issue using a more-generic
> > signal-multiplexing mechanism doesn't seem *that* much better to me. It
> > adds a lot of complexity, and only saves a single signal (assuming glibc
> > doesn't add more reserved signals). The "big win" is additional
> > emulation features, like those introduced in MUX patch (being able to
> > utilize signals outside of the host range). If having those features in
> > QEMU warrants the additional complexity, then re-working this patch
> > on-top of that infrastructure seems like a good idea.
> >
> > If the maintainers want to go down that route, then I would be happy to
> > re-work this patch utilizing the infrastructure from the MUX patch.
> > Unfortunately it will require non-trivial changes, so it may be best to
> > wait until that patch is merged. I could also provide a patch "on top
> > of" the MUX patch, if that's desired/more convenient.
> >
> > Just one last note, if you do decide to merge the MUX patch, then it
> > would be best to use SIGRTMAX (instead of SIGRTMAX-1) as the
> > multiplexing signal if possible, to avoid breaking go binaries.
> >
> 
> Personally, I prefer a solution that breaks nothing.
> 
> Aleksandar, Milos,
> 
> do you have an updated version of you series "Support signal passing for
> targets having more signals than host"?
> 

Milos is unfortunetely working on an entirely different project now, and can't spare enough time to finish the series. I am also busy with other issues, even though I would like very much this or equivalent solution to be integrated. Alternatively, someone in the team may have time later this year, but I do not know that yet  - perhaps somebody else (Josh) can take over the series?

Sincerely,
Aleksandar


> Thanks,
> Laurent
> 

Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and SIGRTMAX - 1

[Aleksandar Markovic]

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On Wednesday, August 28, 2019, Aleksandar Markovic <amarkovic@wavecomp.com>
wrote:

> > From: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
> > Sent: Wednesday, August 28, 2019 10:51 AM
> > To: Josh Kunz; Aleksandar Markovic; milos.stojanovic@rt-rk.com
> > Cc: marlies.ruck@gmail.com; qemu-devel@nongnu.org; riku.voipio@iki.fi;
> > qemu-trivial@nongnu.org; Peter Maydell; Shu-Chun Weng; Aleksandar
> Markovic
> > Subject: [EXTERNAL]Re: [Qemu-devel] patch to swap SIGRTMIN + 1 and
> SIGRTMAX - 1
> >
> > Le 26/08/2019 à 23:10, Josh Kunz a écrit :
> > > On Wed, Aug 21, 2019 at 2:28 AM Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu
> > > <mailto:laurent@vivier.eu>> wrote:
> > >
> > >     Le 19/08/2019 à 23:46, Josh Kunz via Qemu-devel a écrit :
> > >     > Hi all,
> > >     >
> > >     > I have also experienced issues with SIGRTMIN + 1, and am
> interested in
> > >     > moving this patch forwards. Anything I can do here to help?
> Would the
> > >     > maintainers prefer myself or Marli re-submit the patch?
> > >     >
> > >     > The Go issue here seems particularly sticky. Even if we update
> the Go
> > >     > runtime, users may try and run older binaries built with older
> > >     versions of
> > >     > Go for quite some time (months? years?). Would it be better to
> > >     hide this
> > >     > behind some kind of build-time flag
> > >     (`--enable-sigrtmin-plus-one-proxy` or
> > >     > something), so that some users can opt-in, but older binaries
> > >     still work as
> > >     > expected?
> > >     >
> > >     > Also, here is a link to the original thread this message is in
> > >     reply to
> > >     > in-case my mail-client doesn't set up the reply properly:
> > >     > https://lists.nongnu.org/archive/html/qemu-devel/2019-
> 07/msg01303.html
> > >
> > >     The problem here is we break something to fix something else.
> > >
> > >     I'm wondering if the series from Aleksandar Markovic, "linux-user:
> > >     Support signal passing for targets having more signals than host"
> [1]
> > >     can fix the problem in a better way?
> > >
> > >
> > > That patch[1] (which I'll refer to as the MUX patch to avoid confusion)
> > > does not directly fix the issue addressed by this patch (re-wiring
> > > SIGRTMIN+1), but since it basically implements generic signal
> > > multiplexing, it could be re-worked to address this case as well. The
> > > way it handles `si_code` spooks me a little bit. It could easily be
> > > broken by a kernel version change, and such a breakage could be hard to
> > > detect or lead to surprising results. Other than that, it looks like a
> > > reasonable implementation.
> > >
> > > That said, overall, fixing the SIGRTMIN+1 issue using a more-generic
> > > signal-multiplexing mechanism doesn't seem *that* much better to me. It
> > > adds a lot of complexity, and only saves a single signal (assuming
> glibc
> > > doesn't add more reserved signals). The "big win" is additional
> > > emulation features, like those introduced in MUX patch (being able to
> > > utilize signals outside of the host range). If having those features in
> > > QEMU warrants the additional complexity, then re-working this patch
> > > on-top of that infrastructure seems like a good idea.
> > >
> > > If the maintainers want to go down that route, then I would be happy to
> > > re-work this patch utilizing the infrastructure from the MUX patch.
> > > Unfortunately it will require non-trivial changes, so it may be best to
> > > wait until that patch is merged. I could also provide a patch "on top
> > > of" the MUX patch, if that's desired/more convenient.
> > >
> > > Just one last note, if you do decide to merge the MUX patch, then it
> > > would be best to use SIGRTMAX (instead of SIGRTMAX-1) as the
> > > multiplexing signal if possible, to avoid breaking go binaries.
> > >
> >
> > Personally, I prefer a solution that breaks nothing.
> >
> > Aleksandar, Milos,
> >
> > do you have an updated version of you series "Support signal passing for
> > targets having more signals than host"?
> >
>
> Milos is unfortunetely working on an entirely different project now, and
> can't spare enough time to finish the series. I am also busy with other
> issues, even though I would like very much this or equivalent solution to
> be integrated. Alternatively, someone in the team may have time later this
> year, but I do not know that yet  - perhaps somebody else (Josh) can take
> over the series?
>
>

Hello, all.

From my side, status quo. Milos (who ironically works in the office next to
mine) expressed interest in modifying his solution to be in accordance with
what Peter said, says that this is doable, but requires a lot of meticulous
work - however, he is too involved into his project for months to go. I am
also involved in other things, and, furthermore, has less background
knowledge than Milos. That said, we in MIPS would like the solution
described by Peter as much as other platforms, if not more.

All this taken into account, perhaps this can be a project for Outreachy or
Google Summer of Code, mentored by Peter?

The perhaps largest problem with that is that the person doing it would
need some steep learning curve (on signals in general, and their treatment
in QEMU), that can take some significant time.

Yours,
Aleksandar


> Sincerely,
> Aleksandar
>
>
> > Thanks,
> > Laurent
> >
>

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