[Bug 1807743] Re: QEMU timerfd_create support on PowerPC

2018-12-18 Thread Wes Tarro
I have tested this package and it fixes the bug without causing any regressions in my tests. To test the update I re-performed the test case procedure to verify the updated package fixed the bug and then used the updated package to run the unit tests for an internal application compiled for ppc64.

RE: [Bug 1807743] Re: QEMU timerfd_create support on PowerPC

2018-12-11 Thread Wes Tarro
When I try to edit the description I'm getting timeout errors (maybe because I'm behind a corporate proxy?). I've written the test case below. Please add it to the bug description. [Test Case] * Compile the attached source code using your host C compiler. * Run the resulting binary. > It sho

[Bug 1807743] Re: QEMU timerfd_create support on PowerPC

2018-12-11 Thread Wes Tarro
I've attached source code to use for the test case. I tested it using the Ubuntu standard compiler (gcc package), the Ubuntu standard powerpc64 cross compiler (gcc-powerpc64-linux-gnu package), and a custom GCC 4.9.2 targeting PowerPC64 on an embedded board. ** Attachment added: "C source code to

[Bug 1807743] [NEW] QEMU timerfd_create support on PowerPC

2018-12-10 Thread Wes Tarro
Public bug reported: QEMU erroneously fails to detect support for the timerfd_create syscall when running user-mode emulation of PowerPC targets. QEMU supports the timerfd_create syscall, but because the PowerPC target syscall header has it named "timerfd" instead of "timerfd_create", support is e