[GSoC-2014] Introducing Myself

2014-02-28 Thread Varad Gautam
Hi. I am interested in participating in Google Summer of Code - 2014 with Linaro and working on two of the ideas from Ideas page [1]: AArch64 porting of Free Software Packages - I am amazed going through the details mentioned at [2] about the use of assembly in packages. I would like to discover m

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testing QEMU aarch64-linux-user emulation

2014-02-28 Thread Alex Bennée
Michael Matz writes: > Hi, > > On Tue, 25 Feb 2014, Peter Maydell wrote: > >> On 25 February 2014 13:33, Michael Matz wrote >> > The biggest road-block is that signal vs syscall handling is >> > fundamentally broken in linux-user and it's unfixable without >> > assembler implementations of the

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testing QEMU aarch64-linux-user emulation

2014-02-28 Thread Alexander Graf
> Am 28.02.2014 um 22:21 schrieb Peter Maydell : > >> On 28 February 2014 14:12, Alex Bennée wrote: >> Is this "simply" a case of having a precise state in/around syscalls? > > No. > >> AIUI we already have such a mechanism for dealing with faults in >> translated code so this is all aimed at

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testing QEMU aarch64-linux-user emulation

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 February 2014 14:12, Alex Bennée wrote: > Is this "simply" a case of having a precise state in/around syscalls? No. > AIUI we already have such a mechanism for dealing with faults in > translated code so this is all aimed at when an asynchronous signal > arrives somewhere in QEMU's own cod

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testing QEMU aarch64-linux-user emulation

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 February 2014 14:27, Alexander Graf wrote: > Could we check the instruction at the sognaling pc and check > if it's a known syscall instruction? No need to replace glibc > wrappers then. No, because the behaviour we want for "started handling syscall in qemu" through to "PC anything up to b

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testing QEMU aarch64-linux-user emulation

2014-02-28 Thread Alex Bennée
Peter Maydell writes: > On 28 February 2014 14:27, Alexander Graf wrote: >> Could we check the instruction at the sognaling pc and check >> if it's a known syscall instruction? No need to replace glibc >> wrappers then. > > No, because the behaviour we want for "started handling > syscall in qe

Re: [Qemu-devel] Call for testing QEMU aarch64-linux-user emulation

2014-02-28 Thread Peter Maydell
On 28 February 2014 17:08, Alex Bennée wrote: > > Peter Maydell writes: > >> On 28 February 2014 14:27, Alexander Graf wrote: >>> Could we check the instruction at the sognaling pc and check >>> if it's a known syscall instruction? No need to replace glibc >>> wrappers then. >> >> No, because th