1. 23 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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      fix vrregset_t layout and member naming on powerpc64 · 3c59a868
      Rich Felker 提交于
      the mistaken layout seems to have been adapted from 32-bit powerpc,
      where vscr and vrsave are packed into the same 128-bit slot in a way
      that looks like it relies on non-overlapping-ness of the value bits in
      big endian.
      
      the powerpc64 port accounted for the fact that the 64-bit ABI puts
      each in its own 128-bit slot, but ordered them incorrectly (matching
      the bit order used on the 32-bit ABI), and failed to account for vscr
      being padded according to endianness so that it can be accessed via
      vector moves.
      
      in addition to ABI layout, our definition used different logical
      member layout/naming from glibc, where vscr is a structure to
      facilitate access as a 32-bit word or a 128-bit vector. the
      inconsistency here was unintentional, so fix it.
      3c59a868
  2. 17 5月, 2019 3 次提交
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      fix tls offsets when p_vaddr%p_align != 0 on TLS_ABOVE_TP targets · a60b9e06
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      currently the bfd linker does not seem to create tls segments where
      p_vaddr%p_align != 0, but this is valid in ELF and then the runtime
      computed tls offset must satisfy
      
        offset%p_align == (base+p_vaddr)%p_align
      
      and in case of local exec tls (main executable) the smallest such
      offset must be used (otherwise it is incompatible with the offset
      computed by the static linker). the !TLS_ABOVE_TP case is handled
      correctly (the offset is negative then in the formula).
      
      the ldso code for TLS_ABOVE_TP is changed so the static tls offset
      of each module satisfies the formula.
      a60b9e06
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      fix static tls offsets of shared libs on TLS_ABOVE_TP targets · 6104dae9
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      tls_offset should always point to the end of the allocated static tls
      area, but this was not handled correctly on "tls variant 1" targets
      in the dynamic linker:
      
      after application tls was allocated, tls_offset was aligned up,
      potentially wasting tls space. (alignment may be needed at the
      begining of the tls area, not at the end, but that will be fixed
      separately as it is unlikely to affect real binaries.)
      
      when static tls was allocated for a shared library, tls_offset was
      only updated with the size of the tls segment which does not include
      alignment gaps, which can easily happen if the tls size update for
      one library leaves tls_offset misaligned for the next one. this can
      cause oob access in __copy_tls or arbitrary breakage at tls access.
      (the issue was observed on aarch64 with rust binaries)
      6104dae9
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      fix format strings for uid/gid values in putpwent/putgrent · 9fd98a63
      Rich Felker 提交于
      commit 648c3b4e omitted this change,
      which is needed to be able to use uid/gid values greater than INT_MAX
      with these interfaces. it fixes alpine linux bug #10460.
      9fd98a63
  3. 12 5月, 2019 2 次提交
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      remove unused struct dso members from dynlink.c · f450c150
      Fangrui Song 提交于
      maintainer's note: commit 9d44b646
      removed their use.
      f450c150
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      improve i386 inline syscall asm on non-broken compilers · bdb08175
      Rich Felker 提交于
      we have to avoid using ebx unconditionally in asm constraints for
      i386, because gcc 3 and 4 and possibly other simplistic compilers
      (pcc?) implement PIC via making ebx a fixed-use register, and disallow
      its use for anything else. rather than hard-coding knowledge of which
      compilers work (at least gcc 5+ and clang), perform a configure test;
      this should give us the good codegen on any new compilers we don't yet
      know about.
      
      swapping ebx and edx is kept for 1- and 2-arg syscalls because it
      avoids having any spills/stack-frame at all in small functions. for
      6-arg, if ebx is directly usable, the complex shuffling introduced in
      commit c8798ef9 can be avoided, and
      ebp can be loaded the same way ebx is in 5-arg syscalls for compilers
      that don't support direct use of ebx.
      bdb08175
  4. 11 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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      fix regression in i386 inline syscall asm producing invalid code · c8798ef9
      Rich Felker 提交于
      commit 22e5bbd0 inlined the i386
      syscall mechanism, but wrongly assumed memory operands to the 5- and
      6-argument syscall asm would be esp-based. however, nothing in the
      constraints prevented them from being ebx- or ebp-based, and in those
      cases, ebx and ebp could be clobbered before use of the memory operand
      was complete. in the 6-argument case, this prevented restoration of
      the original register values before the end of the asm block, breaking
      the asm contract since ebx and ebp are not marked as clobbered. (they
      can't be, because lots of compilers don't accept these registers in
      constraints or clobbers if PIC or frame pointer is enabled).
      
      doing this right is complicated by the fact that, after a single push,
      no operands which might be memory operands are usable. if they are
      esp-based, the value of esp has changed, rendering them invalid.
      
      introduce some new dances to load the registers. for the 5-arg case,
      push the operand that may be a memory operand first, and after that,
      it doesn't matter if the operand is invalid, since we'll just use the
      newly pushed value. for the 6-arg case, we need to put both operands
      in memory to begin with, like the old non-inline code prior to commit
      22e5bbd0 accepted, so that there's
      only one potentially memory-based operand to the asm. this can then be
      saved with a single push, and after that the values can be read off
      into the registers they're needed in.
      
      there's some size overhead, but still a lot less execution overhead
      than the old out-of-line code. doing it better depends on a modern
      compiler that lets you use ebx and ebp in asm constraints without
      restriction. the failure modes on compilers where this doesn't work
      are inconsistent and dangerous (on at least some gcc versions 4.x and
      earlier, wrong codegen!), so this is a delicate matter. it can be
      addressed later if needed.
      c8798ef9
  5. 06 5月, 2019 1 次提交
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      make fgetwc set error indicator for stream on encoding errors · 511d7073
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this is a requirement in POSIX that's omitted, and seemed potentially
      non-conforming, in the C standard. as such it was omitted here.
      however, as part of Austin Group issue #1170, the discrepancy was
      raised with WG14 and determined to be unintended; future versions of
      the C standard will require the error indicator to be set, as POSIX
      does.
      511d7073
  6. 05 5月, 2019 4 次提交
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      fix broken posix_fadvise on mips due to missing 7-arg syscall support · d02e72ad
      Rich Felker 提交于
      commit 788d5e24 exposed the breakage
      at build time by removing support for 7-argument syscalls; however,
      the external __syscall function provided for mips before did not pass
      a 7th argument from the stack, so the behavior was just silently
      broken.
      d02e72ad
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      allow archs to provide a 7-argument syscall if needed · d7b58342
      Rich Felker 提交于
      commit 788d5e24 noted that we could
      add this if needed, and in fact it is needed, but not for one of the
      archs documented as having a 7th syscall arg register. rather, it's
      needed for mips (o32), where all but the first 4 arguments are passed
      on the stack, and the stack can accommodate a 7th.
      d7b58342
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      fix build regression on mips n32 due to typo in new inline syscall · 7b6ec3de
      Rich Felker 提交于
      commit 1bcdaeee introduced the
      regression.
      7b6ec3de
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      fix passing of 64-bit syscall arguments on microblaze · 28198ac3
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this has been wrong since the beginning of the microblaze port: the
      syscall ABI for microblaze does not align 64-bit arguments on even
      register boundaries. commit 788d5e24
      exposed the problem by introducing references to a nonexistent
      __syscall7. the ABI is not documented well anywhere, but I was able to
      confirm against both strace source and glibc source that microblaze is
      not using the alignment.
      
      per the syscall(2) man page, posix_fadvise, ftruncate, pread, pwrite,
      readahead, sync_file_range, and truncate were all affected and either
      did not work at all, or only worked by chance, e.g. when the affected
      argument slots were all zero.
      28198ac3
  7. 24 4月, 2019 1 次提交
  8. 21 4月, 2019 1 次提交
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      make new math code compatible with unused variable warning/error · 78691fa7
      Rich Felker 提交于
      commit b50d315f introduced
      fp_force_eval implemented by default with a dead store to a volatile
      variable. unfortunately introduces warnings with -Wunused-variable and
      breaks the ability to use -Werror with the default warning options set
      by configure when warnings are enabled.
      
      we could just call fp_barrier instead, but that results in a spurious
      load after the store due to volatile semantics.
      
      the fix committed here avoids the load. it will still produce warnings
      without -Wno-unused-but-set-variable, but that's part of our default
      warning profile, and there are already other locations in the source
      where an unused variable warning will occur without it.
      78691fa7
  9. 18 4月, 2019 18 次提交
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      math: new pow · e4dd6530
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      The underflow exception is signaled if the result is in the subnormal
      range even if the result is exact.
      
      code size change: +3421 bytes.
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
         pow rthruput: 102.96 ns/call 33.38 ns/call 3.08x
          pow latency: 144.37 ns/call 54.75 ns/call 2.64x
      -O3:
         pow rthruput:  98.91 ns/call 32.79 ns/call 3.02x
          pow latency: 138.74 ns/call 53.78 ns/call 2.58x
      e4dd6530
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      math: new exp and exp2 · e16f7b3c
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      TOINT_INTRINSICS and EXP_USE_TOINT_NARROW cases are unused.
      
      The underflow exception is signaled if the result is in the subnormal
      range even if the result is exact (e.g. exp2(-1023.0)).
      
      code size change: -1672 bytes.
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
         exp rthruput:  12.73 ns/call  6.68 ns/call 1.91x
          exp latency:  45.78 ns/call 21.79 ns/call 2.1x
        exp2 rthruput:   6.35 ns/call  5.26 ns/call 1.21x
         exp2 latency:  26.00 ns/call 16.58 ns/call 1.57x
      -O3:
         exp rthruput:  12.75 ns/call  6.73 ns/call 1.89x
          exp latency:  45.91 ns/call 21.80 ns/call 2.11x
        exp2 rthruput:   6.47 ns/call  5.40 ns/call 1.2x
         exp2 latency:  26.03 ns/call 16.54 ns/call 1.57x
      e16f7b3c
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      math: new log2 · 2a3210cf
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      code size change: +2458 bytes (+1524 bytes with fma).
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
        log2 rthruput:  16.08 ns/call 10.49 ns/call 1.53x
         log2 latency:  44.54 ns/call 25.55 ns/call 1.74x
      -O3:
        log2 rthruput:  15.92 ns/call 10.11 ns/call 1.58x
         log2 latency:  44.66 ns/call 26.16 ns/call 1.71x
      2a3210cf
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      math: new log · 236cd056
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      Assume __FP_FAST_FMA implies __builtin_fma is inlined as a single
      instruction.
      
      code size change: +4588 bytes (+2540 bytes with fma).
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
         log rthruput:  12.61 ns/call  7.95 ns/call 1.59x
          log latency:  41.64 ns/call 23.38 ns/call 1.78x
      -O3:
         log rthruput:  12.51 ns/call  7.75 ns/call 1.61x
          log latency:  41.82 ns/call 23.55 ns/call 1.78x
      236cd056
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      math: new powf · d28cd0ad
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      POWF_SCALE != 1.0 case only matters if TOINT_INTRINSICS is set, which
      is currently not supported for any target.
      
      SNaN is not supported, it would require an issignalingf
      implementation.
      
      code size change: -816 bytes.
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
        powf rthruput:  95.14 ns/call 20.04 ns/call 4.75x
         powf latency: 137.00 ns/call 34.98 ns/call 3.92x
      -O3:
        powf rthruput:  92.48 ns/call 13.67 ns/call 6.77x
         powf latency: 131.11 ns/call 35.15 ns/call 3.73x
      d28cd0ad
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      math: new exp2f and expf · 3f94c648
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      In expf TOINT_INTRINSICS is kept, but is unused, it would require support
      for __builtin_round and __builtin_lround as single instruction.
      
      code size change: +94 bytes.
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
        expf rthruput:   9.19 ns/call  8.11 ns/call 1.13x
         expf latency:  34.19 ns/call 18.77 ns/call 1.82x
       exp2f rthruput:   5.59 ns/call  6.52 ns/call 0.86x
        exp2f latency:  17.93 ns/call 16.70 ns/call 1.07x
      -O3:
        expf rthruput:   9.12 ns/call  4.92 ns/call 1.85x
         expf latency:  34.44 ns/call 18.99 ns/call 1.81x
       exp2f rthruput:   5.58 ns/call  4.49 ns/call 1.24x
        exp2f latency:  17.95 ns/call 16.94 ns/call 1.06x
      3f94c648
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      math: new log2f · 098868b3
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc
      
      code size change: +177 bytes.
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
       log2f rthruput:  11.38 ns/call  5.99 ns/call 1.9x
        log2f latency:  35.01 ns/call 22.57 ns/call 1.55x
      -O3:
       log2f rthruput:  10.82 ns/call  5.58 ns/call 1.94x
        log2f latency:  35.13 ns/call 21.04 ns/call 1.67x
      098868b3
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      math: new logf · db505b79
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      from https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines,
      commit 04884bd04eac4b251da4026900010ea7d8850edc,
      with minor changes to better fit into musl.
      
      code size change: +289 bytes.
      benchmark on x86_64 before, after, speedup:
      
      -Os:
        logf rthruput:   8.40 ns/call  6.14 ns/call 1.37x
         logf latency:  31.79 ns/call 24.33 ns/call 1.31x
      -O3:
        logf rthruput:   8.43 ns/call  5.58 ns/call 1.51x
         logf latency:  32.04 ns/call 20.88 ns/call 1.53x
      db505b79
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      math: add configuration macros · 169fc008
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      Musl currently aims to support non-nearest rounding mode and does not
      support SNaNs. These macros allow marking relevant code paths in case
      these decisions are changed later (they also help documenting the
      corner cases involved).
      169fc008
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      math: add macros for static branch prediction hints · 3c3763fc
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      These don't have an effectw with -Os so not useful with default settings
      other than documenting the expectation.
      
      With --enable-optimize=internal,malloc,string,math the libc.so code size
      increases by 18K on x86_64 and performance varies in -2% .. +10%.
      3c3763fc
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      math: add double precision error handling functions · 4f8acf95
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      4f8acf95
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      math: add single precision error handling functions · 9ef6ca42
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      These are supposed to be used in tail call positions when handling
      special cases in new code. (fp exceptions may be raised "naturally"
      by the common code path if special casing is more effort.)
      
      This implements the error handling apis used in
      https://github.com/ARM-software/optimized-routines
      without errno setting.
      9ef6ca42
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      math: add eval_as_float and eval_as_double · fe54544f
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      Previously type casts or assignments were used for handling excess
      precision, which assumed standard C99 semantics, but since it's a
      rarely needed obscure detail, it's better to use explicit helper
      functions to document where we rely on this.  It also helps if the
      code is used outside of the libc in non-C99 compilation mode: with the
      default excess precision handling of gcc, explicit inline asm barriers
      are needed for narrowing on FLT_EVAL_METHOD!=0 targets.
      
      I plan to use this in new code with the existing style that uses
      double_t and float_t as much as possible.
      
      One ugliness is that it is required for almost every return statement
      since that does not drop excess precision (the standard changed this
      in C11 annex F, but that does not help in non-standard compilation
      modes or with old compilers).
      fe54544f
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      math: add fp_arch.h with fp_barrier and fp_force_eval · b50d315f
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      C99 has ways to support fenv access, but compilers don't implement it
      and assume nearest rounding mode and no fp status flag access. (gcc has
      -frounding-math and then it does not assume nearest rounding mode, but
      it still assumes the compiled code itself does not change the mode.
      Even if the C99 mechanism was implemented it is not ideal: it requires
      all code in the library to be compiled with FENV_ACCESS "on" to make it
      usable in non-nearest rounding mode, but that limits optimizations more
      than necessary.)
      
      The math functions should give reasonable results in all rounding modes
      (but the quality may be degraded in non-nearest rounding modes) and the
      fp status flag settings should follow the spec, so fenv side-effects are
      important and code transformations that break them should be prevented.
      
      Unfortunately compilers don't give any help with this, the best we can
      do is to add fp barriers to the code using volatile local variables
      (they create a stack frame and undesirable memory accesses to it) or
      inline asm (gcc specific, requires target specific fp reg constraints,
      often creates unnecessary reg moves and multiple barriers are needed to
      express that an operation has side-effects) or extern call (only useful
      in tail-call position to avoid stack-frame creation and does not work
      with lto).
      
      We assume that in a math function if an operation depends on the input
      and the output depends on it, then the operation will be evaluated at
      runtime when the function is called, producing all the expected fenv
      side-effects (this is not true in case of lto and in case the operation
      is evaluated with excess precision that is not rounded away). So fp
      barriers are needed (1) to prevent the move of an operation within a
      function (in case it may be moved from an unevaluated code path into an
      evaluated one or if it may be moved across a fenv access), (2) force the
      evaluation of an operation for its side-effect when it has no input
      dependency (may be constant folded) or (3) when its output is unused. I
      belive that fp_barrier and fp_force_eval can take care of these and they
      should not be needed in hot code paths.
      b50d315f
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      math: remove sun copyright from libm.h · f107d34e
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      Nothing is left from the original fdlibm header nor from the bsd
      modifications to it other than some internal api declarations.
      
      Comments are dropped that may be copyrightable content.
      f107d34e
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      math: add asuint, asuint64, asfloat and asdouble · d59e5042
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      Code generation for SET_HIGH_WORD slightly changes, but it only affects
      pow, otherwise the generated code is unchanged.
      d59e5042
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      math: move complex math out of libm.h · 2d72b580
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      This makes it easier to build musl math code with a compiler that
      does not support complex types (tcc) and in general more sensible
      factorization of the internal headers.
      2d72b580
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      define FP_FAST_FMA* when fma* can be inlined · e980ca7a
      Szabolcs Nagy 提交于
      FP_FAST_FMA can be defined if "the fma function generally executes about
      as fast as, or faster than, a multiply and an add of double operands",
      which can only be true if the fma call is inlined as an instruction.
      
      gcc sets __FP_FAST_FMA if __builtin_fma is inlined as an instruction,
      but that does not mean an fma call will be inlined (e.g. it is defined
      with -fno-builtin-fma), other compilers (clang) don't even have such
      macro, but this is the closest we can get.
      
      (even if the libc fma implementation is a single instruction, the extern
      call overhead is already too big when the macro is used to decide between
      x*y+z and fma(x,y,z) so it cannot be based on libc only, defining the
      macro unconditionally on targets which have fma in the base isa is also
      incorrect: the compiler might not inline fma anyway.)
      
      this solution works with gcc unless fma inlining is explicitly turned off.
      e980ca7a
  10. 11 4月, 2019 8 次提交
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      fcntl.h: define O_TTY_INIT to 0 · 65c8be38
      A. Wilcox 提交于
      POSIX: "[If] either O_TTY_INIT is set in oflag or O_TTY_INIT has the
      value zero, open() shall set any non-standard termios structure
      terminal parameters to a state that provides conforming behavior."
      
      The Linux kernel tty drivers always perform initialisation on their
      devices to set known good termios values during the open(2) call.  This
      means that setting O_TTY_INIT to zero is conforming.
      65c8be38
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      remove external __syscall function and last remaining users · 788d5e24
      Rich Felker 提交于
      the weak version of __syscall_cp_c was using a tail call to __syscall
      to avoid duplicating the 6-argument syscall code inline in small
      static-linked programs, but now that __syscall no longer exists, the
      inline expansion is no longer duplication.
      
      the syscall.h machinery suppported up to 7 syscall arguments, only via
      an external __syscall function, but we presently have no syscall call
      points that actually make use of that many, and the kernel only
      defines 7-argument calling conventions for arm, powerpc (32-bit), and
      sh. if it turns out we need them in the future, they can easily be
      added.
      788d5e24
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      implement inline 5- and 6-argument syscalls for mipsn32 and mips64 · 1bcdaeee
      Rich Felker 提交于
      n32 and n64 ABIs add new argument registers vs o32, so that passing on
      the stack is not necessary, so it's not clear why the 5- and
      6-argument versions were special-cased to begin with; it seems to have
      been pattern-copying from arch/mips (o32).
      
      i've treated the new argument registers like the first 4 in terms of
      clobber status (non-clobbered). hopefully this is correct.
      1bcdaeee
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      cleanup mips64 syscall_arch functions · d3b4869c
      Rich Felker 提交于
      d3b4869c
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      implement inline 5- and 6-argument syscalls for mips · dcb18bea
      Rich Felker 提交于
      the OABI passes these on the stack, using the convention that their
      position on the stack is as if the first four arguments (in registers)
      also had stack slots. originally this was deemed too awkward to do
      inline, falling back to external __syscall, but it's not that bad and
      now that external __syscall is being removed, it's necessary.
      dcb18bea
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      use inline syscalls for powerpc (32-bit) · 6aeb9c67
      Rich Felker 提交于
      the inline syscall code is copied directly from powerpc64. the extent
      of register clobber specifiers may be excessive on both; if that turns
      out to be the case it can be fixed later.
      6aeb9c67
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      remove cruft for supposedly-buggy clang from or1k & microblaze syscall_arch · f76d51a1
      Rich Felker 提交于
      it was never demonstrated to me that this workaround was needed, and
      seems likely that, if there ever was any clang version for which it
      was needed, it's old enough to be unusably buggy in other ways. if it
      turns out some compilers actually can't do the register allocation
      right, we'll need to replace this with inline shuffling code, since
      the external __syscall dependency is being removed.
      f76d51a1
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      overhaul i386 syscall mechanism not to depend on external asm source · 22e5bbd0
      Rich Felker 提交于
      this is the first part of a series of patches intended to make
      __syscall fully self-contained in the object file produced using
      syscall.h, which will make it possible for crt1 code to perform
      syscalls.
      
      the (confusingly named) i386 __vsyscall mechanism, which this commit
      removes, was introduced before the presence of a valid thread pointer
      was mandatory; back then the thread pointer was setup lazily only if
      threads were used. the intent was to be able to perform syscalls using
      the kernel's fast entry point in the VDSO, which can use the sysenter
      (Intel) or syscall (AMD) instruction instead of int $128, but without
      inlining an access to the __syscall global at the point of each
      syscall, which would incur a significant size cost from PIC setup
      everywhere. the mechanism also shuffled registers/calling convention
      around to avoid spills of call-saved registers, and to avoid
      allocating ebx or ebp via asm constraints, since there are plenty of
      broken-but-supported compiler versions which are incapable of
      allocating ebx with -fPIC or ebp with -fno-omit-frame-pointer.
      
      the new mechanism preserves the properties of avoiding spills and
      avoiding allocation of ebx/ebp in constraints, but does it inline,
      using some fairly simple register shuffling, and uses a field of the
      thread structure rather than global data for the vdso-provided syscall
      code address.
      
      for now, the external __syscall function is refactored not to use the
      old __vsyscall so it can be kept, but the intent is to remove it too.
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