Re: [Qemu-devel] [PATCH] clone syscall fix

[Stuart Anderson]

On Sat, 31 Mar 2007, Thiemo Seufer wrote:

> Stuart Anderson wrote:
> > Even though clone() and fork() are related, they don't seem to be close
> > enough to allow a single routine to be used to implement both. With this
> > patch, the LTP tests for clone now pass.
>
> But it still does the same, assuming VM_CLONE is set, except for passing
> additional arguments to the host call.

I'm not so sure that the VM_CLONE flag should control wether the new
stack is set up or not. There are tests for newsp == NULL inside that
block anyway. The LTP certainly tests combination for which the
do_fork() code doesn't work.


> Passing untranslated regs looks
> like a bug to me, I'm unsure about the tls_val.

Hmm, could be, but that's the way it is in the current code. I think
more testing on additional combination sof target &host will be needed.

> > It may be possible to fold this back into do_fork(), but this just seemed to
> > be a little bit more straightforward.
>
> Since Linux's fork() is just a specialcase of clone() this should be
> done eventually.

I'll try just dropping do_fork completely, and see if this new do_clone()
works for the fork case also. If so, then that effectively folds the
changes back into do_fork(), and more closely resembles that non-emulated
case of fork() being implemnted on top of clone( anyway.


                                Stuart

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