From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 From: Tony Jones Subject: Re: [PATCH] audit: add ppc64 mach support Date: Tue, 02 Dec 2014 13:27:05 -0800 Message-ID: <547E2EA9.6060107@suse.de> References: <5400DF80.1080700@suse.de> <547D0091.909@suse.de> <2573861.NOhY4taJkb@sifl> <1678380.WNrdWIL7BC@x2> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset="us-ascii" Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Return-path: In-Reply-To: <1678380.WNrdWIL7BC@x2> List-Unsubscribe: , List-Archive: List-Post: List-Help: List-Subscribe: , Sender: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com Errors-To: linux-audit-bounces@redhat.com To: Steve Grubb , Paul Moore Cc: linux-audit@redhat.com List-Id: linux-audit@redhat.com On 12/02/2014 12:29 PM, Steve Grubb wrote: > On Tuesday, December 02, 2014 03:18:35 PM Paul Moore wrote: >> On Monday, December 01, 2014 03:58:09 PM Tony Jones wrote: >>> Mainline kernel reports ppc64le (per >>> a0588015deab1844261b27a67ae6f5b910fe2830) but there is no matching >>> AUDIT_ARCH_PPC64LE. Eric just pinged me on irc about it. Fix to add it >>> to include/uapi/linux/audit.h shoudld probably go upstream. >> >> Untested, uncompiled too, but beyond the patch below, is there anything else >> we would need in the kernel to enable proper ppc64le support? > > The only question I have is whether or not PPC LE is just 64 bit or if it has > a 32 bit ABI also. The uname patch referenced above seems to show a ppcle and > ppc64le return. The original patch accepted was only for 64 bit ABI. > > Thanks, > -Steve Hmmn, initially when I ran into the problem it was due to perf trace (which uses the audit libs) failing. I didn't notice any other kernel issues, I'll have to look closer (wrt Pauls patch). As far as 32bit, I was told by our IBM liason that LE is 64 bit only. Tony