Re: [PATCH 19/24] errno may not be a gobal R/W variable, use a local variable instead (fix build on NetBSD)

[Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

On Mon, Jan 04, 2021 at 11:56:14AM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> On Tue, Dec 29, 2020 at 03:38:53PM +0100, Roger Pau Monné wrote:
> > On Mon, Dec 14, 2020 at 05:36:18PM +0100, Manuel Bouyer wrote:
> > > ---
> > >  tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c | 5 +++--
> > >  1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)
> > > 
> > > diff --git a/tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c b/tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c
> > > index 33098046c2..39c8c83b4b 100644
> > > --- a/tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c
> > > +++ b/tools/xenpaging/xenpaging.c
> > > @@ -180,10 +180,11 @@ static int xenpaging_get_tot_pages(struct xenpaging 
> > > *paging)
> > >  static void *init_page(void)
> > >  {
> > >      void *buffer;
> > > +    int rc;
> > >  
> > >      /* Allocated page memory */
> > > -    errno = posix_memalign(&buffer, XC_PAGE_SIZE, XC_PAGE_SIZE);
> > > -    if ( errno != 0 )
> > > +    rc = posix_memalign(&buffer, XC_PAGE_SIZE, XC_PAGE_SIZE);
> > > +    if ( rc != 0 )
> > 
> > I think the point of setting errno here is because posix_memalign
> > doesn't set it and instead returns an error code. The caller of
> > init_page uses PERROR in order to print the error which his expected to
> > be in errno.
> 
> I understand this. But on NetBSD, errno is:
> #define errno (*__errno())
> 
> (I think this is related to thread-safety).
> 
> > 
> > I don't think this is the only place in Xen code that errno is set, why
> > are the others fine but not this instance?
> 
> probably this code is not used on NetBSD ?

I was wrong, errno is writable but it needs #include <errno.h>
I reverted this a fixed it the right way

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Manuel Bouyer <bouyer@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
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