linux/tools/include
Zhangjin Wu 0cb0675ec3 tools/nolibc: add support for powerpc
Both syscall declarations and _start code definition are added for
powerpc to nolibc.

Like mips, powerpc uses a register (exactly, the summary overflow bit)
to record the error occurred, and uses another register to return the
value [1]. So, the return value of every syscall declaration must be
normalized to match the __sysret() helper, return -value when there is
an error, otheriwse, return value directly.

Glibc and musl use different methods to check the summary overflow bit,
glibc (sysdeps/unix/sysv/linux/powerpc/sysdep.h) saves the cr register
to r0 at first, and then check the summary overflow bit in cr0:

    mfcr r0
    r0 & (1 << 28) ? -r3 : r3

    -->

    10003c14:       7c 00 00 26     mfcr    r0
    10003c18:       74 09 10 00     andis.  r9,r0,4096
    10003c1c:       41 82 00 08     beq     0x10003c24
    10003c20:       7c 63 00 d0     neg     r3,r3

Musl (arch/powerpc/syscall_arch.h) directly checks the summary overflow
bit with the 'bns' instruction, it is smaller:

    /* no summary overflow bit means no error, return value directly */
    bns+ 1f
    /* otherwise, return negated value */
    neg r3, r3
    1:

    -->

    10000418:       40 a3 00 08     bns     0x10000420
    1000041c:       7c 63 00 d0     neg     r3,r3

Like musl, Linux (arch/powerpc/include/asm/vdso/gettimeofday.h) uses the
same method for do_syscall_2() too.

Here applies the second method to get smaller size.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/syscall.2.html

Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
2023-08-23 05:17:07 +02:00
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asm tools headers: Update the copy of x86's mem{cpy,set}_64.S used in 'perf bench' 2023-05-17 10:42:19 -03:00
asm-generic tools: KVM: selftests: Convert clear/set_bit() to actual atomics 2022-12-02 13:22:35 -05:00
linux perf cs-etm: Copy kernel coresight-pmu.h header 2023-05-26 16:03:27 -03:00
nolibc tools/nolibc: add support for powerpc 2023-08-23 05:17:07 +02:00
tools tools include: add dis-asm-compat.h to handle version differences 2022-08-01 15:29:49 -03:00
trace/events
uapi asm-generic updates for 6.5 2023-07-06 10:06:04 -07:00
vdso tools headers: Synchronize {linux,vdso}/bits.h with the kernel sources 2023-03-03 22:34:15 -03:00