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tools/nolibc: add pipe() and pipe2() support
authorYuan Tan <tanyuan@tinylab.org>
Tue, 1 Aug 2023 15:39:54 +0000 (23:39 +0800)
committerWilly Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
Wed, 23 Aug 2023 03:17:07 +0000 (05:17 +0200)
commit3ec38af6eedb1659f4a2b0350f61782952dd50b7
treebcb709f0dde00a49628945d530c4a90eb5316abb
parente7d0129df681aa23bb6528f44186accc38d655f0
tools/nolibc: add pipe() and pipe2() support

According to manual page [1], posix spec [2] and source code like
arch/mips/kernel/syscall.c, for historic reasons, the sys_pipe() syscall
on some architectures has an unusual calling convention.  It returns
results in two registers which means there is no need for it to do
verify the validity of a userspace pointer argument.  Historically that
used to be expensive in Linux.  These days the performance advantage is
negligible.

Nolibc doesn't support the unusual calling convention above, luckily
Linux provides a generic sys_pipe2() with an additional flags argument
from 2.6.27. If flags is 0, then pipe2() is the same as pipe(). So here
we use sys_pipe2() to implement the pipe().

pipe2() is also provided to allow users to use flags argument on demand.

[1]: https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man2/pipe.2.html
[2]: https://pubs.opengroup.org/onlinepubs/9699919799/functions/pipe.html

Suggested-by: Zhangjin Wu <falcon@tinylab.org>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/all/20230729100401.GA4577@1wt.eu/
Signed-off-by: Yuan Tan <tanyuan@tinylab.org>
Reviewed-by: Thomas Weißschuh <linux@weissschuh.net>
Signed-off-by: Willy Tarreau <w@1wt.eu>
tools/include/nolibc/sys.h