Commit 0cb0675e authored by Zhangjin Wu's avatar Zhangjin Wu Committed by Willy Tarreau

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.htmlReviewed-by: default avatarThomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: default avatarZhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
Signed-off-by: default avatarWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
parent 024a6c29
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#include "arch-aarch64.h"
#elif defined(__mips__) && defined(_ABIO32)
#include "arch-mips.h"
#elif defined(__powerpc__)
#include "arch-powerpc.h"
#elif defined(__riscv)
#include "arch-riscv.h"
#elif defined(__s390x__)
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