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.
next prev parent 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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