Re: [PATCH] arm64: Enable CONFIG_COMPAT also for 64k page size

[Christopher Covington <cov@codeaurora.org>]

Hi,

On 03/11/2015 08:47 AM, Arnd Bergmann wrote:
> On Wednesday 11 March 2015 06:24:16 Alexander Graf wrote:
>> So after recompiling all of the distribution with newer binutils we now
>> have an openSUSE Factory tree that has 64k aligned 32bit binaries.
>>
>> Unfortunately however, the 32bit glibc has a bogus mmap() implementation
>> that hard codes 4k page size.
>>
>> With the patch below applied to glibc, I can successfully run 32bit user
>> space on Seattle with 64k PAGE_SIZE though. So I guess we'll need to fix
>> up glibc next.
>>
>> Do you know of anyone who's fluent enough in 32bit ARM assembly to
>> convert the hard coded assumptions in there to instead use a variable
>> that takes the actual host page size into account?
> 
> I believe this is a kernel bug, and the kernel API for 32-bit emulation
> should always take the pgoff argument in 4KB units instead of PAGE_SIZE
> units, see the implementation of sys_mmap2 in
> arch/powerpc/kernel/sys_ppc32.c.
> 
> All user space programs that call mmap2 still need to make sure that
> their arguments are PAGE_SIZE aligned, but the libc need not care
> about this here.

What is the correct behavior for /proc/pid/pagemap, /proc/kpagecount, and
/proc/kpageflags for a AArch32 process running on an AArch64 kernel with
non-4K translation granule? Actual page frame number or units-of-4K frame number?

Thanks,
Chris

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