Re: [RFC v2 03/37] lkl: architecture skeleton for Linux kernel library

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On Fri, Nov 8, 2019 at 6:03 AM Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
>
> From: Octavian Purdila <tavi.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>
>
> Adds the LKL Kconfig, vmlinux linker script, basic architecture
> headers and miscellaneous basic functions or stubs such as
> dump_stack(), show_regs() and cpuinfo proc ops.
>
> The headers we introduce in this patch are simple wrappers to the
> asm-generic headers or stubs for things we don't support, such as
> ptrace, DMA, signals, ELF handling and low level processor operations.
>
> The kernel configuration is automatically updated to reflect the
> endianness of the host, 64bit support or the output format for
> vmlinux's linker script. We do this by looking at the ld's default
> output format.
>
> Signed-off-by: Andreas Abel <aabel@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Conrad Meyer <cem@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Edison M. Castro <edisonmcastro@xxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: H.K. Jerry Chu <hkchu@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Hajime Tazaki <thehajime@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Jens Staal <staal1978@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Lai Jiangshan <jiangshanlai@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Levente Kurusa <levex@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Luca Dariz <luca.dariz@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Mark Stillwell <mark@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Matthieu Coudron <mattator@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Michael Zimmermann <sigmaepsilon92@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Motomu Utsumi <motomuman@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Patrick Collins <pscollins@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Petros Angelatos <petrosagg@xxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Pierre-Hugues Husson <phh@xxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Xiao Jia <xiaoj@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Yuan Liu <liuyuan@xxxxxxxxxx>
> Signed-off-by: Octavian Purdila <tavi.purdila@xxxxxxxxx>

Can we please have this chain cleaned up?
Please see process/submitting-patches.rst.

> ---
>  MAINTAINERS                                |   8 +
>  arch/um/lkl/.gitignore                     |   2 +
>  arch/um/lkl/Kconfig                        |  95 ++++++
>  arch/um/lkl/Kconfig.debug                  |   0
>  arch/um/lkl/configs/lkl_defconfig          |  91 ++++++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/Kbuild             |  80 +++++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/bitsperlong.h      |  11 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/byteorder.h        |   7 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/cpu.h              |  14 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/elf.h              |  15 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/mutex.h            |   7 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/processor.h        |  60 ++++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/ptrace.h           |  25 ++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/sched.h            |  23 ++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/syscalls.h         |  18 ++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/syscalls_32.h      |  43 +++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/tlb.h              |  12 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/uaccess.h          |  64 ++++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/unistd_32.h        |  31 ++
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/vmlinux.lds.h      |  14 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/asm/xor.h              |   9 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/uapi/asm/Kbuild        |   9 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/uapi/asm/bitsperlong.h |  13 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/uapi/asm/byteorder.h   |  11 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/uapi/asm/siginfo.h     |  11 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/uapi/asm/swab.h        |  11 +
>  arch/um/lkl/include/uapi/asm/syscalls.h    | 348 +++++++++++++++++++++

I think this is the first big thing which needs a unification.

In UML we try hard to re-use headers from x86.
We also have some headers in arch/x86/um/.

LKL should do the same. At least try hard to avoid duplication.

-- 
Thanks,
//richard



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