[PATCH] selftests/powerpc: fix exec benchmark

Mathieu Malaterre malat at debian.org
Sun May 13 02:35:41 AEST 2018


On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 10:54 AM, Mathieu Malaterre <malat at debian.org> wrote:
> Nick,
>
> On Sat, May 12, 2018 at 5:35 AM, Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com> wrote:
>> The exec_target binary could segfault calling _exit(2) because r13
>> is not set up properly (and libc looks at that when performing a
>> syscall). Call SYS_exit using syscall(2) which doesn't seem to
>> have this problem.
>>
>> Signed-off-by: Nicholas Piggin <npiggin at gmail.com>
>> ---
>>  tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/exec_target.c | 7 +++++--
>>  1 file changed, 5 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
>>
>> diff --git a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/exec_target.c b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/exec_target.c
>> index 3c9c144192be..c14b0fc1edde 100644
>> --- a/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/exec_target.c
>> +++ b/tools/testing/selftests/powerpc/benchmarks/exec_target.c
>> @@ -6,8 +6,11 @@
>>   * Copyright 2018, Anton Blanchard, IBM Corp.
>>   */
>>
>> -void _exit(int);
>> +#define _GNU_SOURCE
>> +#include <unistd.h>
>> +#include <sys/syscall.h>
>> +
>>  void _start(void)
>>  {
>> -       _exit(0);
>> +       syscall(SYS_exit, 0);
>>  }
>> --
>> 2.17.0
>>
>
> Could you please apply the same patch to :
>
> ./tools/testing/selftests/size/get_size.c
>
> It segfault on ppc32 with default cross compiler from Debian.

Nevermind, I did not tested and this seems not to be sufficient to
make the executable run properly.


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