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[PATCH] aarch64: Revert the change of the __reserved member of mcontext_t


The uc_mcontext.__reserved member of ucontext_t is a user visible API,
that should not be changed, because this is the only way to access cpu
states of various extensions of linux asm/sigcontext.h, it does not
violate namespace rules either, so revert this part of the commit

commit 4fa9b3bfe6759c82beb4b043a54a3598ca467289
Commit:     Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com>

    Fix mcontext_t sigcontext namespace (bug 21457).

(In principle the user can type cast &uc_mcontext to struct sigcontext*
to use the linux sigcontext fields, but that's not the existing practice
since mcontext_t used to be a typedef of struct sigcontext.)

I plan to commit this soon for 2.27 and backport it to 2.26 if there are
no comments.

2018-01-23  Szabolcs Nagy  <szabolcs.nagy@arm.com>

	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sys/ucontext.h (__glibc_reserved1):
	Rename to __reserved and add comment.
	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ucontext_i.sym (__glibc_reserved1):
	Rename to __reserved.
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sys/ucontext.h b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sys/ucontext.h
index fe72fdd265..f1b3ab59e2 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sys/ucontext.h
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/sys/ucontext.h
@@ -56,7 +56,11 @@ typedef struct
     unsigned long long int __ctx(sp);
     unsigned long long int __ctx(pc);
     unsigned long long int __ctx(pstate);
-    unsigned char __glibc_reserved1[4096] __attribute__ ((__aligned__ (16)));
+    /* This field contains extension records for additional processor
+       state such as the FP/SIMD state.  It has to match the definition
+       of the corresponding field in the sigcontext struct, see the
+       arch/arm64/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext.h linux header for details.  */
+    unsigned char __reserved[4096] __attribute__ ((__aligned__ (16)));
   } mcontext_t;
 
 /* Userlevel context.  */
diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ucontext_i.sym b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ucontext_i.sym
index 479bdda5c6..ab3930c173 100644
--- a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ucontext_i.sym
+++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/aarch64/ucontext_i.sym
@@ -38,7 +38,7 @@ oX0				mcontext (regs)
 oSP				mcontext (sp)
 oPC				mcontext (pc)
 oPSTATE				mcontext (pstate)
-oEXTENSION                      mcontext (__glibc_reserved1)
+oEXTENSION                      mcontext (__reserved)
 
 #define fpsimd_context(member)  offsetof (struct fpsimd_context, member)
 

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