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[v3,00/12] Start porting UML to nolibc

Message ID 20250924142059.527768-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net
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Benjamin Berg Sept. 24, 2025, 2:20 p.m. UTC 
From: Benjamin Berg <benjamin.berg@intel.com>

This patchset is an attempt to start a nolibc port of UML. The goal is
to port UML to use nolibc in smaller chunks to make the switch more
manageable.

Using nolibc has the advantage that it is a smaller runtime and it
allows us to be in full control about all memory mappings that are done.
Another libc on the other hand might map memory unaware of UML, causing
collisions with the UML memory layout. Such mappings could even happen
before UML has fully initialized (e.g. rseq being mapped into the
physical or vmalloc memory areas).

There are three parts to this patchset:
 * Two patches to use tools/include headers instead of kernel headers
   for userspace files.
 * A few nolibc fixes and a new NOLIBC_NO_RUNTIME compile flag for it
 * Finally nolibc build support for UML and switching two files while
   adding the appropriate support in nolibc itself.

v1 of this patchset was
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250915071115.1429196-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net

v2:
  https://lore.kernel.org/all/20250919153420.727385-1-benjamin@sipsolutions.net

Changes in v3:
- sys_ptrace is now not a varadic function
- improve printf %m implementation
- keep perror as function available with NOLIBC_IGNORE_ERRNO
- change syscall guard and fix i386 build

Changes in v2:
- add sys/uio.h and sys/ptrace.h to nolibc
- Use NOLIBC_NO_RUNTIME to disable nolibc startup code
- Fix out-of-tree build
- various small improvements and cleanups

Benjamin

Benjamin Berg (12):
  tools compiler.h: fix __used definition
  um: use tools/include for user files
  tools/nolibc/stdio: let perror work when NOLIBC_IGNORE_ERRNO is set
  tools/nolibc/dirent: avoid errno in readdir_r
  tools/nolibc: implement %m if errno is not defined
  tools/nolibc: use __fallthrough__ rather than fallthrough
  tools/nolibc: add option to disable runtime
  um: add infrastructure to build files using nolibc
  um: use nolibc for the --showconfig implementation
  tools/nolibc: add uio.h with readv and writev
  tools/nolibc: add ptrace support
  um: switch ptrace FP register access to nolibc

 arch/um/Makefile                             | 38 ++++++++++++---
 arch/um/include/shared/init.h                |  2 +-
 arch/um/include/shared/os.h                  |  2 +
 arch/um/include/shared/user.h                |  6 ---
 arch/um/kernel/Makefile                      |  2 +-
 arch/um/kernel/skas/stub.c                   |  1 +
 arch/um/kernel/skas/stub_exe.c               |  4 +-
 arch/um/os-Linux/skas/process.c              |  6 +--
 arch/um/os-Linux/start_up.c                  |  4 +-
 arch/um/scripts/Makefile.rules               | 10 +++-
 arch/x86/um/Makefile                         |  6 ++-
 arch/x86/um/os-Linux/Makefile                |  5 +-
 arch/x86/um/os-Linux/registers.c             | 20 ++------
 arch/x86/um/user-offsets.c                   |  1 -
 tools/include/linux/compiler.h               |  2 +-
 tools/include/nolibc/Makefile                |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm.h              |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-arm64.h            |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-loongarch.h        |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-m68k.h             |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-mips.h             |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-powerpc.h          |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-riscv.h            |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-s390.h             |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-sh.h               |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-sparc.h            |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/arch-x86.h              |  4 ++
 tools/include/nolibc/compiler.h              |  4 +-
 tools/include/nolibc/crt.h                   |  3 ++
 tools/include/nolibc/dirent.h                |  6 +--
 tools/include/nolibc/nolibc.h                |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/stackprotector.h        |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/stdio.h                 | 10 +++-
 tools/include/nolibc/stdlib.h                |  2 +
 tools/include/nolibc/sys.h                   |  3 +-
 tools/include/nolibc/sys/auxv.h              |  3 ++
 tools/include/nolibc/sys/ptrace.h            | 44 ++++++++++++++++++
 tools/include/nolibc/sys/uio.h               | 49 ++++++++++++++++++++
 tools/testing/selftests/nolibc/nolibc-test.c | 11 +++++
 39 files changed, 221 insertions(+), 53 deletions(-)
 create mode 100644 tools/include/nolibc/sys/ptrace.h
 create mode 100644 tools/include/nolibc/sys/uio.h