linux/tools
Rohan McLure b6b1334c95 powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation
Syscall #82 has been implemented for 32-bit platforms in a unique way on
powerpc systems. This hack will in effect guess whether the caller is
expecting new select semantics or old select semantics. It does so via a
guess, based off the first parameter. In new select, this parameter
represents the length of a user-memory array of file descriptors, and in
old select this is a pointer to an arguments structure.

The heuristic simply interprets sufficiently large values of its first
parameter as being a call to old select. The following is a discussion
on how this syscall should be handled.


As discussed in this thread, the existence of such a hack suggests that for
whatever powerpc binaries may predate glibc, it is most likely that they
would have taken use of the old select semantics. x86 and arm64 both
implement this syscall with oldselect semantics.

Remove the powerpc implementation, and update syscall.tbl to refer to emit
a reference to sys_old_select and compat_sys_old_select
for 32-bit binaries, in keeping with how other architectures support
syscall #82.

Signed-off-by: Rohan McLure <rmclure@linux.ibm.com>
Reviewed-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@gmail.com>
Signed-off-by: Michael Ellerman <mpe@ellerman.id.au>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/lkml/13737de5-0eb7-e881-9af0-163b0d29a1a0@csgroup.eu/
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220921065605.1051927-12-rmclure@linux.ibm.com
2022-09-26 23:00:15 +10:00
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accounting delayacct: remove some unused variables 2022-06-16 19:58:21 -07:00
arch asm goto: eradicate CC_HAS_ASM_GOTO 2022-08-21 10:06:28 -07:00
bootconfig
bpf bpftool: Complete libbfd feature detection 2022-08-10 10:44:01 -03:00
build tools build: Switch to new openssl API for test-libcrypto 2022-08-10 10:44:02 -03:00
certs tools/certs: Add print-cert-tbs-hash.sh 2022-05-23 18:47:49 +03:00
cgroup tools: add memcg_shrinker.py 2022-07-03 18:08:40 -07:00
counter
debugging
edid
firewire
firmware
gpio tools: gpio: Add new hardware clock type 2022-05-04 11:06:14 +02:00
hv
iio
include tools headers UAPI: Sync linux/perf_event.h with the kernel sources 2022-08-19 15:56:10 -03:00
io_uring
kvm/kvm_stat tools/kvm_stat: fix display of error when multiple processes are found 2022-06-15 08:14:20 -04:00
laptop
leds
lib libperf: Add a test case for read formats 2022-08-19 15:56:44 -03:00
memory-model
objtool x86/ibt, objtool: Add IBT_NOSEAL() 2022-08-19 04:05:42 -04:00
pci
pcmcia
perf powerpc/32: Remove powerpc select specialisation 2022-09-26 23:00:15 +10:00
power platform-drivers-x86 for v6.0-1 2022-08-04 18:19:14 -07:00
rcu
scripts
spi spi: spidev_test: Warn when the mode is not the requested mode 2022-06-13 15:56:03 +01:00
testing selftests/powerpc: Skip 4PB test on 4K PAGE_SIZE systems 2022-09-04 22:39:59 +10:00
thermal tools/thermal: Fix possible path truncations 2022-08-03 19:28:46 +02:00
time
tracing rtla: Consolidate and show all necessary libraries that failed for building 2022-08-10 12:03:02 -04:00
usb tools: usb: testusb: Add super-plus speed reporting 2022-07-08 14:54:49 +02:00
verification rv/monitor: Add the wwnr monitor 2022-07-30 14:01:30 -04:00
virtio tools/virtio: fix build 2022-08-11 04:26:07 -04:00
vm - The usual batches of cleanups from Baoquan He, Muchun Song, Miaohe 2022-08-05 16:32:45 -07:00
wmi
Makefile tools/nolibc: make the default target build the headers 2022-06-20 09:43:19 -07:00