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From: Andi Kleen <andi@firstfloor.org>
To: David Miller <davem@davemloft.net>
Cc: andi@firstfloor.org, airlied@gmail.com,
	linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, dri-devel@lists.sourceforge.net,
	arnd@arndb.de
Subject: Re: is avoiding compat ioctls possible?
Date: Wed, 28 Oct 2009 05:36:11 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20091028043611.GK7744@basil.fritz.box> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20091027.203709.27104760.davem@davemloft.net>

On Tue, Oct 27, 2009 at 08:37:09PM -0700, David Miller wrote:
> On sparc64, in order to make debugging easier, we trap any time
> the kernel does a userspace access to a compat task and any
> of the upper 32-bits are non-zero.

Interesting. That definitely means Dave needs a special path.

> > However some architectures need special operations on compat pointers
> > (s390 iirc), but if you don't support those it might be reasonable
> > to not support that.
> 
> s390 has to sign extend all 32-bit compat process pointers when
> processing them in the 64-bit s390 kernel.  I think one other
> architecture has this kind of situation too.

Which other architure? I reviewed all the definitions in tree
and don't see any other than s390 doing magic there.

-Andi

-- 
ak@linux.intel.com -- Speaking for myself only.

  reply	other threads:[~2009-10-28  4:36 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 42+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2009-10-28  1:22 is avoiding compat ioctls possible? Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  2:25 ` David Miller
2009-10-28  3:01   ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  2:53 ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28  3:05   ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  3:19     ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28  3:28       ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  3:34         ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28  3:43           ` David Miller
2009-10-28  3:41         ` David Miller
2009-10-28 21:05       ` Maciej W. Rozycki
2009-10-29  8:27         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28  3:38     ` David Miller
2009-10-28  3:43       ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  3:45         ` David Miller
2009-10-28  3:51           ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28  3:54           ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  5:28             ` David Miller
2009-10-28  5:42               ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-28  6:04                 ` David Miller
2009-10-28  7:53                   ` David Miller
2009-10-28  7:59                     ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28  8:11                       ` David Miller
2009-10-28  8:19                         ` Andi Kleen
2009-10-28  8:28                           ` David Miller
2009-10-28 12:13                     ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28 12:16                       ` David Miller
2009-10-28 15:40                         ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-29  5:41                           ` David Miller
2009-10-29  8:16                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-29  8:34                             ` Heiko Carstens
2009-10-29  8:39                               ` David Miller
2009-10-28 12:17                       ` David Miller
2009-10-30  1:13                     ` Dave Airlie
2009-10-30 10:13                       ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-11-18  0:26                         ` Dave Airlie
2009-11-18  9:09                           ` Andi Kleen
2009-11-18 14:42                             ` Arnd Bergmann
2009-10-28  3:37   ` David Miller
2009-10-28  4:36     ` Andi Kleen [this message]
2009-10-28  5:29       ` David Miller
2009-10-28 10:27       ` Arnd Bergmann

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