Since Linux 2.6 the stat syscalls have mostly supported nanosecond
components for each of the file-related timestamps.
QEMU user mode emulation currently does not pass through the nanosecond
portion of the timestamp, even when the host system fills in the value.
This results in a mismatch when run on subsecond resolution filesystems
such as ext4 or XFS.
An example of this leading to inconsistency is cross-debootstraping a
full desktop root filesystem of Debian Buster. Recent versions of
fontconfig store the full timestamp (instead of just the second portion)
of the directory in its per-directory cache file, and checks this against
the directory to see if the cache is up-to-date. With QEMU user mode
emulation, the timestamp stored is incorrect, and upon booting the rootfs
natively, fontconfig discovers the mismatch, and proceeds to rebuild the
cache on the comparatively slow machine (low-power ARM vs x86). This
stalls the first attempt to open whatever application that incorporates
fontconfig.
This patch renames the "unused" padding trailing each timestamp element
to its nanosecond counterpart name if such an element exists in the
kernel sources for the given platform. Not all do. Then have the syscall
wrapper fill in the nanosecond portion if the host supports it, as
specified by the _POSIX_C_SOURCE and _XOPEN_SOURCE feature macros.
Recent versions of glibc only use stat64 and newfstatat syscalls on
32-bit and 64-bit platforms respectively. The changes in this patch
were tested by directly calling the stat, stat64 and newfstatat syscalls
directly, in addition to the glibc wrapper, on arm and aarch64 little
endian targets.
Reviewed-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
Signed-off-by: Chen-Yu Tsai <wens@csie.org>
Message-Id: <20190522162147.26303-1-wens@kernel.org>
Signed-off-by: Laurent Vivier <laurent@vivier.eu>
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