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Date: Sun, 28 May 2017 11:19:38 +1200
From: Michael Clark <michaeljclark@....com>
To: Alan Pillay <alanppillay4@...il.com>
Cc: musl@...ts.openwall.com, lowrisc-dev@...ts.lowrisc.org
Subject: Re: [lowrisc-dev] Weekly Report of Porting musl to RISC-V Project #5
Hi,
I’ve restarted the musl port for RISC-V based on this tree (which appeared to be the most recent):
- https://github.com/lluixhi/musl-riscv
I have a pull request against that tree that has some fixes and merges upstream, but is still parented against lluixhi
- https://github.com/lluixhi/musl-riscv/pull/3
I also have a branch with the same changes rebased against musl upstream git.
- https://github.com/rv8-io/musl-riscv/tree/musl-upstream
I obviously can’t make a pull request with a rebased tree so I have two branches, one parented to musl-riscv and the other parented to musl upstream.
When I started, the tree did not compile due to a change in definition of long double to float128. I got the tree to compile by bringing in the QP changes but busybox linked against the resulting lib would fail with permission denied errors. I found that the stat.h was not the asm-generic version. RISC-V does not have it’s own syscall table and just uses the version in asm-generic, likewise for the stat structure. It seems the tree might have imported stat.h from another arch or been based on an earlier riscv-linux. I’ve brought in the generic versions from aarch64. The tree can now build a working busybox on a relatively recent riscv-linux tree i.e. Jan-2017, and it should work on latest riscv-linux as I don’t believe there have been any recent ABI breaks.
So the port now passes the "busybox will run” test. Next on the list is to review the atomics. I have a commit I am preparing that defines a_cas similarly to aarch64 with load reserved store conditional. I’d also like to learn how to use the libc test suite.
BTW Some of the RISC-V developers have asked why musl doesn’t use GCC atomic builtins? e.g.
- https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html <https://gcc.gnu.org/onlinedocs/gcc/_005f_005fatomic-Builtins.html>
Regards,
Michael
> On 9 Dec 2016, at 1:36 PM, Alan Pillay <alanppillay4@...il.com> wrote:
>
> What is the current status of musl on RISC-V?
> This was the last time I heard about it, but it has been many months since.
> Regards.
>
>> Hello,
>>
>> Thanks to the folks, I passed the mid-term evaluation. Now it is about
>> time to publish the fifth progress report on porting musl on RISC-V.
>>
>> Last week, the toolchain itself has been built for RISC-V and running
>> on Spike, and libc-test [1] can be executed with it now. I posted the
>> result of tests on [2]. The REPORT.txt file contains all error
>> messages of failed tests, both run-time ones and compile-time ones.
>>
>> Some failures are expected since musl on x86_64 also does the same
>> ones (e.g. errors in src/api/fcntl.c), but there are some unexpected
>> errors too. I guess that the "warning: <the name of a header> is
>> shorter than expected" warning indicates bugs in arch-dependent part
>> of I/O functions or system calls (or kernel?) and it causes syntax
>> errors in the same compilation unit.
>>
>> Moreover, some tests triggers a "signal 11" error (segmentation fault)
>> in libc. I added some logs to [2]. They are bugs in the port,
>> obviously. I am working on them.
>>
>> The good news is, anyway, some results are *better than x86_64*,
>> especially in math functions :-)
>> (probably the cause is the difference in the floating-point precision,
>> though. it is usual in float tests...)
>>
>> It takes long, long time to get but finally I have a (seems-to-be)
>> working test suite for the port. I will continue to debug and fix the
>> port using the result. Stay tuned!
>>
>>
>> [1]: http://nsz.repo.hu/git/?p=libc-test
>> [2]: https://gist.github.com/omasanori/ee828369aea844ac7fdfdc8362953299
>>
>> --
>> Masanori Ogino
>
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