On Mon, 22 Nov 2021 at 12:21, Richard Henderson
wrote:
>
> On 11/22/21 12:55 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
> >> + /*
> >> + * The syscall calling convention isn't the same as the C one:
> >
> > Looks like the indent here is wrong ?
>
> Irritatingly, these files are a mix of tabs/spaces.
On 11/22/21 12:55 PM, Peter Maydell wrote:
- /* This is the entry point for making a system call. The calling
+ /*
+* This is the entry point for making a system call. The calling
* convention here is that of a C varargs function with the
* first argument a
On Wed, 17 Nov 2021 at 16:12, Richard Henderson
wrote:
>
> The current api from safe_syscall_base() is to return -errno, which is
> the interface provided by *some* linux kernel abis. The wrapper macro,
> safe_syscall(), detects error, stores into errno, and returns -1, to
> match the api of the
On Wed, Nov 17, 2021 at 9:04 AM Richard Henderson <
richard.hender...@linaro.org> wrote:
> The current api from safe_syscall_base() is to return -errno, which is
> the interface provided by *some* linux kernel abis. The wrapper macro,
> safe_syscall(), detects error, stores into errno, and return
The current api from safe_syscall_base() is to return -errno, which is
the interface provided by *some* linux kernel abis. The wrapper macro,
safe_syscall(), detects error, stores into errno, and returns -1, to
match the api of the system syscall().
For those kernel abis that do not return -errno
