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Date: Tue, 12 Apr 2022 09:11:29 +0800
From: 王洪亮 <wanghongliang@...ngson.cn>
To: musl@...ts.openwall.com
Cc: Christian Brauner <brauner@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: Re: add loongarch64 port


在 2022/4/11 下午9:01, Arnd Bergmann 写道:
> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 2:11 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>> On Mon, Apr 11, 2022 at 10:03:13AM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 5:27 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>>>> On Sun, Apr 10, 2022 at 12:30:59PM +0200, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
>>>>> On Sat, Apr 9, 2022 at 3:31 PM Rich Felker <dalias@...c.org> wrote:
>>>>>> Actually, if there aren't yet archs lacking SYS_clone, this API
>>>>>> regression may be a good argument not to drop SYS_clone on new archs
>>>>>> yet until there's a way for new archs to get the same behavior
>>>>>> (unspecified stack size).
>>>>> That is a good point, but it also appears that the behavior of
>>>>> clone3() is unintentional
>>>>> here, I'm fairly sure it was meant to be a drop-in replacement for clone() with
>>>>> additional features.
>>>>>
>>>>> Not sure what the best fix for this is, as the check for size==0 was clearly
>>>>> intentional, but seems to prevent this from working. A special flag to ignore
>>>>> the size, or a magic size value like -1ull might work, but neither of them
>>>>> is a great interface.
>>>> Are there archs already affected, or will this one be the first?
>>> We have not added any other architectures since clone3 got added,
>>> so this is the first one.
>> In that case I really think __NR_clone should just be kept for now. It
>> doesn't really cost anything on the kernel side and it avoids a
>> dependency on working out how __NR_clone3 is going to fix the missing
>> functionality.
> Yes, fair enough.
>
>          Arnd


Do I need to implement __clone3 for future called in LoongArch port ?


Hongliang Wang.

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