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Date: Wed, 19 May 2021 02:13:31 +0300
From: "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>
To: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
	Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>
Cc: linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, musl@...ts.openwall.com,
	libc-dev@...ts.llvm.org, linux-api@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

Hi,

On Thu, Jun 11, 2020 at 06:12:01PM +1000, Nicholas Piggin wrote:
[...]
> - Error handling: The consensus among kernel, glibc, and musl is to move to
>   using negative return values in r3 rather than CR0[SO]=1 to indicate error,
>   which matches most other architectures, and is closer to a function call.

Apparently, the patchset merged by commit v5.9-rc1~100^2~164 was
incomplete: all functions defined in arch/powerpc/include/asm/ptrace.h and
arch/powerpc/include/asm/syscall.h that use ccr are broken when scv is used.
This includes syscall_get_error() and all its users including
PTRACE_GET_SYSCALL_INFO API, which in turn makes strace unusable
when scv is used.

See also https://bugzilla.redhat.com/1929836


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ldv

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