ILP32 for ARM64: testing with glibc testsuite

[Florian Weimer]

On 11/24/2016 09:59 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
> On Thu, Nov 24, 2016 at 08:36:16AM +0100, Florian Weimer wrote:
>> On 11/24/2016 06:15 AM, Yury Norov wrote:
>>
>>> Conform tests fail most probably because I have vanilla headers at
>>> standard paths (/usr/include). Modified headers are under different
>>> testing location. Steve also tested it, and he has modified headers at
>>> /usr/include, and he doesn't see failures of conform tests. I don't
>>> think that kernel or wrong ABI caused this regression. Most probably
>>> it's configuration issue. I also think that glibc should take headers
>> >from testing directory, not from standard paths. For me it's dangerous
>>> to replace standard headers with untested ones. Is there some option
>>> in glibc testsuite configuration to provide path to headers explicitly?
>>
>> There is something peculiar with your test setup, I think.  The conform
>> tests do not do that for me.  How do you configure, build, and test glibc?
>
> This is my makefile to build it.
> https://github.com/norov/build-glibc
>
> If you have thoughts how to make it work right, I'll be really
> appreciated.

Are you cross-compiling?  I did not expect that.  I thought native 
development was possible on aarch64 now.

>> The instability in the malloc tests need investigation as well.  If you run
>> this on a simulator, you need to increase the test timeout.
>
> I run it on qemu. It doesn't look like instability. malloc tests
> always fail on vanilla glibc, and always pass on patched one, for me.

Have you tried to increase test timeout?

> Andrew has it passed for vanilla glibc as well.

Does Andrew use QEMU as well?

>>> elf/* tests fail only in ILP32 mode. We tracked it down to the linker
>>> problem that replaces accesses to TLS with direct address calculation
>>> if possible, and does it wrong for ilp32. This is definitely a linker
>>> problem, and ABI and kernel are not involved here.
>>
>> The elf/check-localplt failure may have a different cause.  What does the
>> test report in the .out file?
>
> yury@yury-N73SV:~/work/glibc-img/lp64.build$ cat ./elf/check-localplt.out
> Extra PLT reference: libc.so: renameat
>
> Seems yes, it doesn't look like a TLS problem. I'll check it.

Thanks.

Florian