Messages in this thread | | | From | Alistair Francis <> | Date | Wed, 3 Jul 2019 11:42:00 -0700 | Subject | Re: [PATCH 2/2] riscv/include/uapi: Define a custom __SIGINFO struct for RV32 |
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On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 1:41 AM Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> wrote: > > On Wed, Jul 3, 2019 at 2:21 AM Alistair Francis > <alistair.francis@wdc.com> wrote: > > > > The glibc implementation of siginfo_t results in an allignment of 8 bytes > > for the union _sifields on RV32. The kernel has an allignment of 4 bytes > > for the _sifields union. This results in information being lost when > > glibc parses the siginfo_t struct. > > I think the problem is that you incorrectly defined clock_t to 64-bit, > while it is 32 bit in the kernel. You should fix the clock_t definition > instead, it would otherwise cause additional problems.
That is the problem. I assume we want to change the kernel to use a 64-bit clock_t.
What I don't understand though is how that impacted this struct, it doesn't use clock_t at all, everything in the struct is an int or void*.
Alistair
> > Arnd
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