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Re: Fix MIPS o32 posix_fadvise [committed]


Thanks for fixing it Joseph and I although I agree this fix should be the
most straightforward one for 2.25, I would like to get back on it on 2.26.
If arm behavior for posix_advise is not an outliner (as I wrongly supposed)
I think we can incorporate it on generic code an get rid of both arch
specific implementations.

On 12/01/2017 00:20, Joseph Myers wrote:
> The posix_fadvise consolidation broke posix_fadvise for MIPS o32, so
> resulting in posix/tst-posix_fadvise failing.
> 
> MIPS o32 (and the other ABIs) has only the posix_fadvise64 syscall,
> which acts like posix_fadvise64_64 (in the o32 case, because of the
> alignment argument it's actually a 7-argument syscall).  The generic
> posix_fadvise implementation presumes that if __NR_fadvise64 is
> defined, it's for the case where a single len argument is passed to
> the syscall rather than two syscall arguments in the case of a 32-bit
> system.
> 
> The generic posix_fadvise64 works fine for this case (defining
> __NR_fadvise64_64 to __NR_fadvise64 as needed).  ARM has a
> posix_fadvise.c that uses __posix_fadvise64_l64 in posix_fadvise, and
> that approach also works for MIPS o32, so this patch makes MIPS o32
> include the ARM file.
> 
> Tested for MIPS o32.  Committed.
> 
> 2017-01-12  Joseph Myers  <joseph@codesourcery.com>
> 
> 	* sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/posix_fadvise.c: New file.
> 
> diff --git a/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/posix_fadvise.c b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/posix_fadvise.c
> new file mode 100644
> index 0000000..6e9c3f9
> --- /dev/null
> +++ b/sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/mips/mips32/posix_fadvise.c
> @@ -0,0 +1,4 @@
> +/* The o32 MIPS fadvise64 syscall behaves as fadvise64_64.  The ARM
> +   implementation of posix_fadvise works correctly for this case; the
> +   generic implementation mishandles it.  */
> +#include <sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/arm/posix_fadvise.c>
> 


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