the motivation for this change is twofold. first, it gets the fallback
logic out of the dynamic linker, improving code readability and
organization. second, it provides application code that wants to use
the membarrier syscall, which depends on preregistration of intent
before the process becomes multithreaded unless unbounded latency is
acceptable, with a symbol that, when linked, ensures that this
registration happens.
new in linux commit 76b7f670730e87974f71df9f6129811e2769666e
in struct signalfd_siginfo the pad member is changed to __pad to keep
the namespace clean, it's not part of the public api.
maintainer's note: while musl does not use the linux kernel headers,
it does provide these three sys/* headers which do nothing but include
the corresponding linux/* headers, since the sys/* versions are the
ones documented for application use (and they arguably provide
interfaces that are not linux-specific but common to other unices).
these headers should probably not be provided by libc (rather by a
separate package), but as long as they are, use the bits header
framework as an aid to out-of-tree ports of musl for non-linux systems
that want to implement them in some other way.
maintainer's note: at some point, probably long before linux separated
the uapi headers, it was the case, or at least I believed it was the
case, that linux/types.h was unsafe to include from userspace. thus,
the inclusion guard macro _LINUX_TYPES_H was defined in sys/kd.h to
prevent linux/kd.h from including linux/types.h (which it spuriously
includes but does not use). as far as I can tell, whatever problem
this was meant to solve does not seem to have been present for a long
time, and the hack was not done correctly anyway, so removing it is
the right thing to do.
sys/ptrace.h is target specific, use bits/ptrace.h to add target
specific macro definitions.
these macros are kept in the generic sys/ptrace.h even though some
targets don't support them:
PTRACE_GETREGS
PTRACE_SETREGS
PTRACE_GETFPREGS
PTRACE_SETFPREGS
PTRACE_GETFPXREGS
PTRACE_SETFPXREGS
so no macro definition got removed in this patch on any target. only
s390x has a numerically conflicting macro definition (PTRACE_SINGLEBLOCK).
the PT_ aliases follow glibc headers, otherwise the definitions come
from linux uapi headers except ones that are skipped in glibc and
there is no real kernel support (s390x PTRACE_*_AREA) or need special
type definitions (mips PTRACE_*_WATCH_*) or only relevant for linux
2.4 compatibility (PTRACE_OLDSETOPTIONS).
new in linux v3.1 commit 3544d72a0e10d0aa1c1bd59ed77a53a59cdc12f7
changed in linux v3.4 commit 5cdf389aee90109e2e3d88085dea4dd5508a3be7
A tracer recieves this event in the waitpid status of a PTRACED_SEIZED
process.
mlock2 syscall was added in linux v4.4 and glibc has api for it.
It falls back to mlock in case of flags==0, so that case works
even on older kernels.
MLOCK_ONFAULT is moved under _GNU_SOURCE following glibc.
PR_{SET,GET}_SPECULATION_CTRL controls speculation related vulnerability
mitigations, new in commits
b617cfc858161140d69cc0b5cc211996b557a1c7
356e4bfff2c5489e016fdb925adbf12a1e3950ee
introduced to stat ipc objects without permission checks since the
info is available in /proc/sysvipc anyway, new in linux commits
23c8cec8cf679b10997a512abb1e86f0cedc42ba
a280d6dc77eb6002f269d58cd47c7c7e69b617b6
c21a6970ae727839a2f300cd8dd957de0d0238c3
to map at a fixed address without unmapping underlying mappings
(fails with EEXIST unlike MAP_FIXED), new in linux commits
4ed28639519c7bad5f518e70b3284c6e0763e650 and
a4ff8e8620d3f4f50ac4b41e8067b7d395056843.
to get seccomp state for checkpoint restore.
added in linux commit 26500475ac1b499d8636ff281311d633909f5d20
struct tag follows the glibc api and ptrace_peeksiginfo_args
got changed too accordingly.
added to uapi in commit 65aaf87b3aa2d049c6b9fd85221858a895df3393
used since commit a9a08845e9acbd224e4ee466f5c1275ed50054e8,
which renamed POLL* to EPOLL* in the kernel.
PR_SVE_SET_VL and PR_SVE_GET_VL controls are new in linux commit
2d2123bc7c7f843aa9db87720de159a049839862
related PR_SVE_* macros were added in
7582e22038a266444eb87bc07c372592ad647439
for synchronous page faults, new in linux commit
1c9725974074a047f6080eecc62c50a8e840d050 and
b6fb293f2497a9841d94f6b57bd2bb2cd222da43
note that only targets that use asm-generic/mman.h have this new
flag defined, so undef it on other targets (mips*, powerpc*).
*_HUGE_SHIFT, *_HUGE_2MB, *_HUGE_1GB are documented in the man page,
so add all of the *_HUGE_* macros from linux uapi.
if MAP_HUGETLB is set, top bits of the mmap flags encode the page size.
see the linux commit aafd4562dfee81a40ba21b5ea3cf5e06664bc7f6
if SHM_HUGETLB is set, top bits of the shmget flags encode the page size.
see the linux commit 4da243ac1cf6aeb30b7c555d56208982d66d6d33
*_HUGE_16GB is defined unsigned to avoid signed left shift ub.
MSG_ZEROCOPY socket send flag avoids copy in the kernel
new in linux commit 52267790ef52d7513879238ca9fac22c1733e0e3
SO_ZEROCOPY socket option enables MSG_ZEROCOPY if availale
new in linux commit 76851d1212c11365362525e1e2c0a18c97478e6b
add AF_SMC and PF_SMC for the IBM shared memory communication protocol.
new in linux commit ac7138746e14137a451f8539614cdd349153e0c0
(linux socket.h is not in uapi so this update was missed earlier)
With Linux kernel 4.16 it will be possible to guard more parts of the
Linux header files from a libc. Make use of this in musl to guard all
the structures and other definitions from the Linux header files which
are also defined by the header files provided by musl. This will make
it possible to compile source files which include both the libc
headers and the kernel userspace headers.
This extends the definitions done in commit 04983f2272 ("make
netinet/in.h suppress clashing definitions from kernel headers")
SO_MEMINFO added in linux commit a2d133b1d465016d0d97560b11f54ba0ace56d3e
SO_INCOMING_NAPI_ID added in 6d4339028b350efbf87c61e6d9e113e5373545c9
SO_COOKIE added in 5daab9db7b65df87da26fd8cfa695fb9546a1ddb
for tcp timestamp control messages, new in linux commit
1c885808e45601b2b6f68b30ac1d999e10b6f606
and export time measurements via tcp_info, added in linux commit
efd90174167530c67a54273fd5d8369c87f9bd32
aarch64, arm, mips, mips64, mipsn32, powerpc, powerpc64 and sh have
cpu feature bits defined in linux for AT_HWCAP auxv entry, so expose
those in sys/auxv.h
it seems the mips hwcaps were never exposed to userspace neither
by linux nor by glibc, but that's most likely an oversight.
placing the opening brace on the same line as the struct keyword/tag
is the style I prefer and seems to be the prevailing practice in more
recent additions.
these changes were generated by the command:
find include/ arch/*/bits -name '*.h' \
-exec sed -i '/^struct [^;{]*$/{N;s/\n/ /;}' {} +
and subsequently checked by hand to ensure that the regex did not pick
up any false positives.
the kernel ABI value for RUSAGE_CHILDREN is -1, not 1. the latter is
actually interpreted as RUSAGE_THREAD, to obtain values for just the
calling thread and not the whole process.
compilers are free not to copy, or in some cases to clobber, padding
bytes in a structure. while it's an aliasing violation, and thus
undefined behavior, to copy or manipulate other sockaddr types using
sockaddr_storage, it seems likely that traditional code attempts to do
so, and the original intent of the sockaddr_storage structure was
probably to allow such usage.
in the interest of avoiding silent and potentially dangerous breakage,
ensure that there are no actual padding bytes in sockaddr_storage by
moving and adjusting the size of the __ss_padding member so that it
fits exactly.
this change also removes a silent assumption that the alignment of
long is equal to its size.
kernel connection multiplexor macros AF_KCM, PF_KCM, SOL_KCM were
added in linux commit ab7ac4eb9832e32a09f4e8042705484d2fb0aad3
MSG_BATCH sendmsg flag for performance optimization was added
in linux commit f092276d85b82504e8a07498f4e9e0c51f06745c
SOL_* macros are now synced with linux socket.h which is not a uapi
header and glibc did not have the macros either, but that has changed
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-alpha/2016-05/msg00322.html
new socket option so application can give advice about routing
path quality of connected udp sockets, added in linux commit
a87cb3e48ee86d29868d3f59cfb9ce1a8fa63314
previously, the only way the stopping condition could be met with
correct lengths in the headers invoked undefined behavior, adding
sizeof(struct cmsghdr) beyond the end of the cmsg buffer.
instead, compute and compare sizes rather than pointers.
allows the os to free the marked pages lazily on memory pressure.
expected to increase malloc performance.
new in linux commit 854e9ed09dedf0c19ac8640e91bcc74bc3f9e5c9
new flag for exclusive wakeup mode when an event source fd is attached
to multiple epoll fds but they should not all receive the events.
new in linux commit df0108c5da561c66c333bb46bfe3c1fc65905898
new socket options for setting classic or extended BPF program
for sockets in a SO_REUSEPORT group. added in linux commit
538950a1b7527a0a52ccd9337e3fcd304f027f13
Rich Felker
Bobby Bingham
Szabolcs Nagy
midipix
Hauke Mehrtens