Re: Remove execution domain support v2

[Guenter Roeck <linux@roeck-us.net>]

On 04/12/2015 01:57 PM, Richard Weinberger wrote:
> This is v2 of the exec domain removal series I've posted yesterday:
> https://lkml.org/lkml/2015/4/11/181
> I've omitted resending all patches again to lower the churn on LKML.
>
> The whole series can be found at:
> git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/rw/misc.git exec_domain_rip_v2
>
> Changes since v1:
> - Fixed sparc and xtensa thread info offsets
>    Special thanks to Guenter Roeck for reporting and testing!
> - Fixed an unused variable on arm
>    Thanks to Stephen Rothwell!
> - Added David Millers ACK
>
> Stephen, can you please add the tree to -next?
>
> Original description:
>
> A long time ago there was the idea to support different ABIs on Linux
> Such that someone could use for example SCO UNIX binaries on Linux
> without emulation. While the linux-abi project existed mostly as
> out-of-tree patch it's core component, execution domains,
> went mainline. An execution domain allows to specify mappings between
> different ABIs, these mappings consist of signal, error, socket type,
> socket options and addess familiy mappings.
> Mainline has only support for signal mappings.
> The signal mapping happens in the architecutre specific signal code.
> Some archs support it, some not, most of them copy&pasted from i386.
>
> While the mapping support is incomplete we have two in-kernel users of
> execution domains.
>
> 1. RISC OS personality on ARM.
> The Kconfig help message states that this feature is very experimental
> and it is likely that it never worked as expected.
> Russel is fine with the removal.
>
> 2. ia32 support on ia64.
> This is a left over from:
> commit 32974ad4907cdde6c9de612cd1b2ee0568fb9409 ([IA64] Remove COMPAT_IA32 support)
> It registers a dummy Linux/x86 execdomain to make calls to
> personality(PER_LINUX32) faster as the execution domain core code
> would try to load a module.
>
> As both users can be removed there is no user left and we can remove
> execution domains support at all from the kernel.
> The removal will make architecutre specific signal handling easier
> and there is no need to keep execuction domains as this feature is
> obviously incomplete and abandoned.
>
> Guenter Roeck (1):
>        sparc: Fix execution domain removal
>
> Richard Weinberger (25):
>        arm: Remove RISC OS personality
>        ia64: Remove Linux/x86 exec domain support
>        Remove execution domain support
>        arm: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        arm64: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        blackfin: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
>        blackfin: Remove exec_domain usage
>        frv: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        m32r: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
>        m32r: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        m68k: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        microblaze: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        mn10300: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        s390: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        sh: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        sparc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        tile: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        um: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        unicore32: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        x86: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        xtensa: Autogenerate offsets in struct thread_info
>        xtensa: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        arc: Remove signal translation and exec_domain
>        arch: Remove exec_domain from remaining archs
>        Remove rest of exec domains.
>

Looking good this time.

Build results:
	total: 121 pass: 121 fail: 0
Qemu test results:
	total: 30 pass: 30 fail: 0

Guenter