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Date:      Thu, 24 Dec 2015 08:18:35 -0800
From:      Garrett Cooper <yaneurabeya@gmail.com>
To:        Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org>
Cc:        Konstantin Belousov <kib@FreeBSD.org>, src-committers@freebsd.org, svn-src-all@freebsd.org, svn-src-head@freebsd.org
Subject:   Re: svn commit: r291937 - in head: lib/libc/aarch64/sys lib/libc/arm/sys sys/arm/arm sys/arm/include sys/arm64/arm64 sys/arm64/include sys/conf sys/kern
Message-ID:  <3BB67238-237B-41C7-8A3E-32849A51F896@gmail.com>
In-Reply-To: <1450971642.25138.247.camel@freebsd.org>
References:  <201512071220.tB7CKRw0027858@repo.freebsd.org> <1450971642.25138.247.camel@freebsd.org>

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> On Dec 24, 2015, at 07:40, Ian Lepore <ian@freebsd.org> wrote:
> 
>> On Mon, 2015-12-07 at 12:20 +0000, Konstantin Belousov wrote:
>> Author: kib
>> Date: Mon Dec  7 12:20:26 2015
>> New Revision: 291937
>> URL: https://svnweb.freebsd.org/changeset/base/291937
>> 
>> Log:
>>  Add support for usermode (vdso-like) gettimeofday(2) and
>>  clock_gettime(2) on ARMv7 and ARMv8 systems which have architectural
>>  generic timer hardware. It is similar how the RDTSC timer is used in
>>  userspace on x86.
>> 
>>  Fix a permission problem where generic timer access from EL0 (or
>>  userspace on v7) was not properly initialized on APs.
>> 
>>  For ARMv7, mark the stack non-executable. The shared page is added for
>>  all arms (including ARMv8 64bit), and the signal trampoline code is
>>  moved to the page.
>> 
>>  Reviewed by:>    > andrew
>>  Discussed with:>    > emaste, mmel
>>  Sponsored by:>    > The FreeBSD Foundation
>>  Differential revision:>    https://reviews.freebsd.org/D4209
> 
> I've just discovered this change breaks buildworld on armv4/5 systems. 
> Those systems don't have the counter hardware that can be read from
> userland (they don't have any common timer hardware at all, every
> system is different).  Also, they don't support the 'mrrc' instruction,
> so the buildworld fails to compile libc.

+1

I ran into this on ref9-amd64. I thought it was a tool chain issue :/..



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