On Fri, Aug 10, 2018 at 11:27:37AM -0700, Palmer Dabbelt wrote: > I'm not sure. We can implement the syscall fine in !SMP, it's just that the > vDSO is expected to always eat these calls because in non-SMP mode you can > do a global fence.i by just doing a local fence.i (there's only one hart). > > The original rationale behind not having the syscall in non-SMP mode was to > limit the user ABI, but on looking again that seems like it's just a bit of > extra complexity that doesn't help anything. It's already been demonstrated > that nothing is checking the error because it's been silently slipping past > userspace for six months, so the extra complexity seems like it'll just > cause someone else to have to chase the bug in the future. > > But I'm really OK either way. Is there a precedent for what to do here?
I don't know of any.
