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From: Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@linaro.org>
To: sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com
Cc: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>,
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	Marcin Juszkiewicz <marcin.juszkiewicz@linaro.org>,
	Deepa Dinamani <deepa.kernel@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH 0/3] System call table generation support
Date: Thu, 29 Nov 2018 13:48:16 +0530	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALxhOnho7Ad5mzTV-G12inKZbsteN-b706aFQiM9Di6j=6UgYQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20181129063453.GA29271@sathnaga86.in.ibm.com>

Hi Sathish,

Thanks for your email.

On Thu, 29 Nov 2018 at 12:05, Satheesh Rajendran
<sathnaga@linux.vnet.ibm.com> wrote:
>
> On Fri, Sep 14, 2018 at 02:02:57PM +0530, Firoz Khan wrote:
> > The purpose of this patch series is:
> > 1. We can easily add/modify/delete system call by changing entry
> > in syscall.tbl file. No need to manually edit many files.
> >
> > 2. It is easy to unify the system call implementation across all
> > the architectures.
> >
> > The system call tables are in different format in all architecture
> > and it will be difficult to manually add or modify the system calls
> > in the respective files manually. To make it easy by keeping a script
> > and which'll generate the header file and syscall table file so this
> > change will unify them across all architectures.
> >
> > syscall.tbl contains the list of available system calls along with
> > system call number and corresponding entry point. Add a new system
> > call in this architecture will be possible by adding new entry in
> > the syscall.tbl file.
> >
> > Adding a new table entry consisting of:
> >         - System call number.
> >         - ABI.
> >         - System call name.
> >         - Entry point name.
> >         - Compat entry name, if required.
> >
> > ARM, s390 and x86 architecuture does exist the similar support. I
> > leverage their implementation to come up with a generic solution.
> >
> > I have done the same support for work for alpha, m68k, microblaze,
> > ia64, mips, parisc, sh, sparc, and xtensa. But I started sending
> > the patch for one architecuture for review. Below mentioned git
> > repository contains more details.
> > Git repo:- https://github.com/frzkhn/system_call_table_generator/
> >
> > Finally, this is the ground work for solving the Y2038 issue. We
> > need to add/change two dozen of system calls to solve Y2038 issue.
> > So this patch series will help to easily modify from existing
> > system call to Y2038 compatible system calls.
> >
> > I started working system call table generation on 4.17-rc1. I used
> > marcin's script - https://github.com/hrw/syscalls-table to generate
> > the syscall.tbl file. And this will be the input to the system call
> > table generation script. But there are couple system call got add
> > in the latest rc release. If run Marcin's script on latest release,
> > It will generate a new syscall.tbl. But I still use the old file -
> > syscall.tbl and once all review got over I'll update syscall.tbl
> > alone w.r.to the tip of the kernel. The impact of this thing, few
> > of the system call won't work.
> >
> > Firoz Khan (3):
> >   powerpc: Replace NR_syscalls macro from asm/unistd.h
> >   powerpc: Add system call table generation support
> >   powerpc: uapi header and system call table file generation
> >
> >  arch/powerpc/Makefile                       |   3 +
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/Kbuild             |   3 +
> >  arch/powerpc/include/asm/unistd.h           |   3 +-
> >  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild        |   2 +
> >  arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h      | 391 +---------------------------
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/Makefile                |   3 +-
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_table_32.S      |   9 +
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_table_64.S      |  17 ++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile       |  51 ++++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl | 378 +++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl | 372 ++++++++++++++++++++++++++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh  |  37 +++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh  |  38 +++
> >  arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S                |  50 ----
> >  14 files changed, 916 insertions(+), 441 deletions(-)
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_table_32.S
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_table_64.S
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/Makefile
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_32.tbl
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscall_64.tbl
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscallhdr.sh
> >  create mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/syscalls/syscalltbl.sh
> >  delete mode 100644 arch/powerpc/kernel/systbl.S
>
> Hi,
>
> This patch series failed to boot in IBM Power8 box with below base commit and built with ppc64le_defconfig,
> https://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/powerpc/linux.git/commit/?h=merge&id=183cbf93be88d1a4fb572e27b1e08aa0ad85

I think you are applied some old patch series. Could you please
perform the boot test on powerpc v3 which I have sent few hour before.

Thanks
Firoz

>
> Complete boot log attached.
>
>
> [    1.577383] SGI XFS with ACLs, security attributes, no debug enabled
> [    1.581550] Bad kernel stack pointer 6e690000 at c000000000e2ceec
> [    1.581558] Oops: Bad kernel stack pointer, sig: 6 [#1]
> [    1.581562] LE SMP NR_CPUS=2048 NUMA PowerNV
> [    1.581567] Modules linked in:
> [    1.581572] CPU: 3 PID: 1937 Comm: modprobe Not tainted 4.20.0-rc4-gd35c78239 #1
> [    1.581577] NIP:  c000000000e2ceec LR: c00000000000b9e4 CTR: c000000000e2cee0
> [    1.581582] REGS: c0000007ffe77d30 TRAP: 0e40   Not tainted  (4.20.0-rc4-gd35c78239)
> [    1.581586] MSR:  9000000000009033 <SF,HV,EE,ME,IR,DR,RI,LE>  CR: 48024488  XER: 00000000
> [    1.5815
> 94] CFAR: c00000000000b9e0 IRQMASK: c0000000014d1bd8
> [    1.581594] GPR00: 00000000000011e0 000000006e690000 c000000001498900 ffffffffffffff9c
> [    1.581594] GPR04: c00000006ecb0ff8 0000000000080000 0000000000000000 7f7f7f7f7f7f7f7f
> [    1.581594] GPR08: 0000000000000000 c000001e5104fe90 0000000000000000 c000000000c30ff8
> [    1.581594] GPR12: c000000000e2cee0 c0000007ffffd800 4f4c5f4543415254 00007fffb55927d0
> [    1.581594] GPR16: 00007fffb55bfbf0 00007fffc087b160 c000000065b70ff8 00007fffc087b5c8
> [    1.581594] GPR20: 000000000000000d 0000000000000000 0000000000000000 000000000000
> 0000
> [    1.581594] GPR24: 000000012b660d79 0000000000000000 00007fffb55c0000 0000000000000000
> [    1.581594] GPR28: 00007fffb55c1110 0000000000000001 00007fffb55c1050 00007fffc087a880
> [    1.58
> 1637] NIP [c000000000e2ceec] str_spec.65753+0x147da0/0x1f1c5c
> [    1.581643] LR [c00000000000b9e4] system_call+0x5c/0x70
> [    1.581646] Call Trace:
> [    1.581648] Instruction dump:
> [    1.581652]
> XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
> [    1.581657] XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX XXXXXXXX
> [    1.581664] ---[ end trace 37e56b4
> 4979b6992 ]---
> [    1.582355]
>
> Regards,
> -Satheesh.
> >
> > --
> > 1.9.1
> >

  reply	other threads:[~2018-11-29  8:18 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 23+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2018-09-14  8:32 [PATCH 0/3] System call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-09-14  8:32 ` [PATCH 1/3] powerpc: Replace NR_syscalls macro from asm/unistd.h Firoz Khan
2018-09-14  8:32 ` [PATCH 2/3] powerpc: Add system call table generation support Firoz Khan
2018-09-14 10:01   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-18 12:15     ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-24 20:59       ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-25  0:48         ` Michael Ellerman
2018-09-25  6:00           ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-25 12:25             ` Michael Ellerman
2018-09-14  8:33 ` [PATCH 3/3] powerpc: uapi header and system call table file generation Firoz Khan
2018-11-29  6:34 ` [PATCH 0/3] System call table generation support Satheesh Rajendran
2018-11-29  8:18   ` Firoz Khan [this message]
2018-11-30  7:01     ` Satheesh Rajendran
2018-11-30  9:40       ` Firoz Khan
  -- strict thread matches above, loose matches on Subject: below --
2018-09-14  8:38 Firoz Khan
2018-09-17 17:17 ` Paul Burton
2018-09-18 14:13   ` Firoz Khan
2018-09-20 14:52   ` Arnd Bergmann
2018-09-20 20:48     ` Paul Burton
2018-09-21  6:09       ` Christoph Hellwig
2018-09-21 19:32         ` Paul Burton
2018-08-09  5:36 Firoz Khan
2018-08-09  5:27 Firoz Khan

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