On Fri, Mar 30, 2018 at 12:58:02PM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote:
> * John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
>
> > On 03/27/2018 12:40 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > > wrote:
> > >>
> > >> What about a tarball with a minimal Debian x32 chroot?
* John Paul Adrian Glaubitz wrote:
> On 03/27/2018 12:40 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> > On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> > wrote:
> >>
> >> What about a tarball with a minimal Debian x32 chroot? Then you can
> >> install interesting packages you would like to test you
On 03/27/2018 12:40 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
> wrote:
>>
>> What about a tarball with a minimal Debian x32 chroot? Then you can
>> install interesting packages you would like to test yourself.
>
> That probably works fine.
I just crea
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 4:37 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
>
> What about a tarball with a minimal Debian x32 chroot? Then you can
> install interesting packages you would like to test yourself.
That probably works fine.
Linus
On 03/27/2018 10:03 AM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Hmm. Do you have a few statically built binaries that could be tested
> without installing a whole distribution? Something real and meaningful
> enough that it actually exercised a few real system calls, but not
> something that needs to bring in 50 d
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:44 PM, John Paul Adrian Glaubitz
wrote:
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> FWIW, we are maintaining an x32 port in Debian and there are some people
> actually using it [1]. There is one build instance running on VMWare that
> I am hosting [2] and around 10800 out of 12900 source packages build fine
> o
Hi Linus!
On 03/26/2018 03:15 PM, Linus Torvalds wrote:
> Secretly, I was hoping to kill x32, because it's not being used afaik.
FWIW, we are maintaining an x32 port in Debian and there are some people
actually using it [1]. There is one build instance running on VMWare that
I am hosting [2] and a
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 04:47:50AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> * mips n32 and x86 x32 can become an extra source of headache.
> That actually applies to any plans of passing struct pt_regs *. As it
> is, e.g. syscall 515 on amd64 is compat_sys_readv(). Dispatched via
> this:
> /*
>
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 8:15 PM, Linus Torvalds
wrote:
>
> HOWEVER.
>
> I didn't actually test any of the compat or x32 ones, and the way I
> did it there also was no type-checking or other automated catching of
> getting it wrong. So it's almost certainly completely buggy, but the
> _intent_ is t
On Sun, Mar 25, 2018 at 5:47 PM, Al Viro wrote:
>
> Linus, Dominik - how do you plan dealing with that fun?
Secretly, I was hoping to kill x32, because it's not being used afaik.
More realistically, I was thinking we'd just use a separate table or
system calls, and generate different versions.
On Mon, Mar 26, 2018 at 01:40:17AM +0100, Al Viro wrote:
> Kinda-sorta part:
> * asmlinkage_protect is taken out for now, so m68k has problems.
> * syscalls that run out of 6 slots barf violently. For mips it's
> wrong (there we have 8 slots); for stuff like arm and ppc it's right, bu
On Thu, Mar 22, 2018 at 12:15:32AM +, Al Viro wrote:
> FWIW, I have something that is almost reasonable on preprocessor side;
> however, that has uncovered the following fun:
[snip]
According to gcc folks, the right way to do it is type-punning via
union. Anyway, below is something that kind
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