From: "R. Lake" <rich@lakes.plus.com>
To: linux-ia64@vger.kernel.org
Subject: [RFC] Endianness and signals
Date: Mon, 20 Oct 2003 23:42:09 +0000 [thread overview]
Message-ID: <marc-linux-ia64-106669369711349@msgid-missing> (raw)
Further to my study of IA64 architecture, and to an extent the linux kernel,
I wonder if the gate page ought to default to little endian upon issue of a
signal. i.e. "rum 2" prior to any loads/stores? It would seem to me that in
the current state, if the process were preempted immediately after a memory
access (fundamentally) in big-endian mode the signal context would likely
execute in the wrong endianness and fail. - It's my understanding that the
user mask is preserved in the context switch.
Regards,
Richard.
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Thread overview: 6+ messages / expand[flat|nested] mbox.gz Atom feed top
2003-10-20 23:42 R. Lake [this message]
2003-10-21 0:10 ` [RFC] Endianness and signals David Mosberger
2003-10-21 20:37 ` Cary Coutant
2003-10-21 20:56 ` David Mosberger
2003-10-21 21:57 ` Cary Coutant
2003-10-21 22:24 ` David Mosberger
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