Subject: Re: Linux powerpc new system call instruction and ABI

From: Florian Weimer <[email-masked]>
Date: Fri, 21 May 2021 21:52:51 +0200

* Matheus Castanho via Libc-alpha:

> From: Nicholas Piggin <[email-masked]>
> Subject: [PATCH 1/1] powerpc: Fix handling of scv return error codes
>
> When using scv on templated ASM syscalls, current code interprets any
> negative return value as error, but the only valid error codes are in
> the range -4095..-1 according to the ABI.
>
> Reviewed-by: Matheus Castanho <[email-masked]>

Please reference bug 27892 in the commit message.  I'd also appreciate a
backport to the 2.33 release branch (where you need to add NEWS manually
to add the bug reference).

Thanks,
Florian