Re: [PATCH v7 00/20] ILP32 for ARM64

[Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com>]

On Mon, Jan 09, 2017 at 04:59:37PM +0530, Yury Norov wrote:
> This series enables aarch64 with ilp32 mode.
> 
> As supporting work, it introduces ARCH_32BIT_OFF_T configuration
> option that is enabled for existing 32-bit architectures but disabled
> for new arches (so 64-bit off_t is is used by new userspace). Also it
> deprecates getrlimit and setrlimit syscalls prior to prlimit64.
> 
> This version is based on linux-next from 2017-01-09. It works with
> glibc-2.25, and tested with LTP, glibc testsuite, trinity, lmbench,
> CPUSpec.
> 
> This is not RFC anymore. I believe that all ABI and implementation
> issues are resolved now. The way that kernel clears registers top
> halves is probably the last question, and because there's no objection
> for current approach for more that 6 month, I think, community agrees
> with it.
> 
> Patches 1, 2, 3 and 8 are general, and may be applied separately.
> 
> Current version does not introduce ABI changes comparing to RFC3.
> Kernel and GLIBC trees:
> https://github.com/norov/linux/tree/ilp32-2017-01-09
> https://github.com/norov/glibc/tree/dev9

Hi Arnd, Catalin,

Is there any progress with review? I particularly ask about generic
patches (1-3, 8). They all reviewed, and most of them acked by you,
but they are still not upstreamed.

Yury