Bug 817276

Summary: qemu on ARM aborts because of missing ucontext
Product: [Fedora] Fedora Reporter: Richard W.M. Jones <rjones>
Component: glibcAssignee: Jeff Law <law>
Status: CLOSED RAWHIDE QA Contact: Fedora Extras Quality Assurance <extras-qa>
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Version: rawhideCC: adam, blc, fweimer, jakub, law, pbrobinson, schwab
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0001-glibc-Backport-ARM-implementation-of-ucontext-from-u.patch none

Description Richard W.M. Jones 2012-04-28 14:38:09 UTC 
Description of problem:

qemu on ARM aborts early on because it uses a home-brewed
coroutine implementation which relies on working getcontext/etc
functions.  On ARM these all return ENOSYS.

glibc-ports upstream has a patch which implements enough
ucontext functionality to get qemu working.

The attached patch backports this patch to Fedora glibc
(in Rawhide).

I compiled and tested glibc with this patch, and it
fixes the initial problem with qemu on ARM (although qemu
fails a bit later on for an unrelated reason).

Version-Release number of selected component (if applicable):

glibc-2.15-32.fc18.armv7hl

Additional info:

https://bugs.launchpad.net/qemu-linaro/+bug/883136
http://sourceware.org/ml/libc-ports/2012-02/msg00077.html

Upstream patch:

http://sourceware.org/git/?p=glibc-ports.git;a=commit;h=402a76b62dded0ee93cfec0471aaeccb989196d2
Comment 1 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-04-28 14:39:04 UTC 
Created attachment 580976 [details]
0001-glibc-Backport-ARM-implementation-of-ucontext-from-u.patch
Comment 2 Adam Goode 2012-04-28 19:15:51 UTC 
It looks like the patch is missing all the new files?
Comment 3 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-04-28 19:32:51 UTC 
That's bizarre.  Here is the actual patch:

http://oirase.annexia.org/tmp/0001-glibc-Backport-ARM-implementation-of-ucontext-from-u.patch
Comment 4 Richard W.M. Jones 2012-04-28 19:33:25 UTC 
Comment on attachment 580976 [details]
0001-glibc-Backport-ARM-implementation-of-ucontext-from-u.patch

See comment 3 for the real patch.
Comment 5 Jeff Law 2012-04-30 20:04:46 UTC 
Installed into rawhide.  Do y'all need this in f17 as well?
Comment 6 Brendan Conoboy 2012-04-30 20:09:10 UTC 
Please pull into F17 as well.
Comment 7 Jeff Law 2012-04-30 20:17:33 UTC 
Done.  If there's a way I can test this, let me know...  My only verification was that what appear to be the right files appeared to be in the right place :-)
Comment 8 Fedora Update System 2012-05-01 19:51:22 UTC 
glibc-2.15-35.fc17 has been submitted as an update for Fedora 17.
https://admin.fedoraproject.org/updates/glibc-2.15-35.fc17
Comment 9 Fedora Update System 2012-05-04 23:05:57 UTC 
glibc-2.15-35.fc17 has been pushed to the Fedora 17 stable repository.  If problems still persist, please make note of it in this bug report.