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SubjectRe: [PATCH 0/7] Minor Alpha updates for 3.11
On 07/16/2013 07:03:47 PM, Michael Cree wrote:
> On Tue, Jul 16, 2013 at 06:35:07PM -0500, Rob Landley wrote:
> > On 07/16/2013 12:04:33 PM, Richard Henderson wrote:
> > >Here's a set of minor updates for arch/alpha that should not
> > >be controversial.
> >
> > I also note that I had to do this to get busybox to build against
> > uClibc:
> > -#define __NR_umount 22
> > +#define __NR_umount2 22
> > -#define __NR_oldumount 321
> > +#define __NR_umount 321
>
> I anticipate that this will likely break userspace.

Haven't seen it so far. It's the same semantics all the other targets
have. Haven't built the whole of linux from scratch against it yet
though. (Most of my package builds are native and I'm still tweaking my
build environment to get a native toolchain built.)

> busybox should be fixed to test for __NR_oldumount and then call the
> correct functions, namely oldumount and umount if __NR_oldumount is
> defined
> and umount and umount2 if it is not defined.

The man page for umount and umount2 doesn't mention "oldumount":

$ man 2 umount | grep old
$

Only three kernel targets mention it, alpha, powerpc, and x86:

$ find arch/*/include -type f | xargs grep oldumount
arch/alpha/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h:#define __NR_oldumount
321
arch/powerpc/include/asm/systbl.h:SYSX(sys_ni_syscall,sys_oldumount,sys_oldumount)
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/syscalls_32.h:__SYSCALL_I386(22,
sys_oldumount, sys_oldumount)

And the other two export umount2:

$ find arch/*/include -type f | xargs grep umount2 | egrep "powerpc|x86"
arch/powerpc/include/uapi/asm/unistd.h:#define
__NR_umount2 52
arch/x86/include/generated/asm/unistd_32_ia32.h:#define
__NR_ia32_umount2 52
arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_x32.h:#define __NR_umount2
(__X32_SYSCALL_BIT + 166)
arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_32.h:#define __NR_umount2 52
arch/x86/include/generated/uapi/asm/unistd_64.h:#define __NR_umount2 166

So really what you're saying is busybox should #ifdef alpha/workaround
target-specific breakage/#unifdef, and what this says to _me_ is that
nobody's tried to build busybox on Alpha since it started using
umount2(). How long ago was that?

commit 6c5f2c602174c7fe0830a1fc4fe5b3dde5ed7068
Author: Erik Andersen <andersen@codepoet.org>
Date: Fri May 5 19:49:33 2000 +0000

I.E. nobody's tried to build busybox umount for Alpha (except me) for
thirteen years.

There are waaaaay more busybox installations out there than even
_emulated_ alpha systems, and this is trivial to fix with a local patch
to the kernel. So I'll just do that. Your idea of the "correct" thing
to do to "fix" this seems entirely backwards to me.

Rob

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