Re: [PATCH v26 26/30] ELF: Introduce arch_setup_elf_property()

On Wed, May 19, 2021 at 03:14:58PM -0700, Yu, Yu-cheng wrote:

However, those parsing functions take (struct arch_elf_state *) as an input.

Exactly.

It probably makes sense to have ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY dependent on
ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE.  It would be ok as-is too.  ARM people might have
other plans in mind.

Well, let's look at ARM, ARM64 in particular. They have defined struct
arch_elf_state without the ifdeffery in

arch/arm64/include/asm/elf.h

and are using that struct in arch_parse_elf_property().

And they have selected ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE just so that they disable
those dummy accessors in fs/binfmt_elf.c

And you're practically glueing together ARCH_BINFMT_ELF_STATE and
ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY. However, all the functionality is for adding
the gnu property note so I think you should select both but only use
ARCH_USE_GNU_PROPERTY in all the ifdeffery in your patch to at least
have this as simple as possible.

I just looked at the ABI document.

Which document is that? Link?

ARM has GNU_PROPERTY_AARCH64_FEATURE_1_AND 0xc0000000

X86 has:
	GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_USED	0xc0000000
	GNU_PROPERTY_X86_ISA_1_NEEDED	0xc0000001
	GNU_PROPERTY_X86_FEATURE_1_AND	0xc0000002

Our defines should at least have a comment pointing to that document.

Thx.

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