Hi,

I am trying to port klibc to aarch64. My code is available from:

git clone git://git.linaro.org/people/anil.singhar/klibc-aarch64.git

At this point, I am trying to fix the following issues. Any help / comment / advice / suggestion is highly appreciated.

1. Need to find the correct value for *KLIBCSHAREDFLAGS *(What value should I set *Ttext* to in the aarch64 specific MCONFIG file?). Right now the MCONFIG looks as follows:

# -*- makefile -*- # # arch/aarch64/MCONFIG # # Special rules for this architecture. Note that this is actually # included from the main Makefile, and that pathnames should be # accordingly. #

CPU_ARCH ?= armv8-a CPU_TUNE ?= generic

KLIBCOPTFLAGS += -Os -march=$(CPU_ARCH) -mtune=$(CPU_TUNE) KLIBCBITSIZE = 64 KLIBCREQFLAGS += -fno-exceptions #KLIBCSTRIPFLAGS += -R .ARM.exidx

# Extra linkflags when building the shared version of the library # This address needs to be reachable using normal inter-module # calls, and work on the memory models for this architecture *#KLIBCSHAREDFLAGS = -Ttext 0x01800200* *<-- Is this value correct..?* #KLIBCREQFLAGS += #KLIBCOPTFLAGS += -mgeneral-regs-only

2. The *stat* family of syscalls don't work correctly. There is only one actual syscall: fstat, which is used by lstat and stat. The syscall doesn't seem to return valid values for target files. e.g. The following fields are wrong:

toot@genericarmv8:~/anilss/AArch64/klibc-aarch64/usr/klibc/tests# ./stat test.out Path = test.out st_dev = 0x11 (0,17) st_ino = 5910539 st_mode = 0 st_nlink = 4295000484 <-- This is wrong st_uid = 0 st_gid = 0 st_rdev = 0x0 (0,0) st_size = 15 st_blksize = 1380537164 st_blocks = 223008806 st_atim = 1048576.000000008 st.mtim = 1380612975.029926968 st.ctim = 1380537164.223008806

Because the fields are wrong, the parsed values are also wrong. Applications such as ls, gzip etc. fail to work because they rely on this syscall.

Since I am doing the development on ARMv8 Foundation model using linaro openembedded image, is there a debug version of the kernel (the one * img-foundation.axf*) that I can use to debug the syscall itself in kernel mode using kgdb? Any other debugging ideas..?

Thanks and Regards, Anil