[PATCH 3.14 18/83] powerpc/compat: 32-bit little endian machine name is ppcle, not ppc

Greg Kroah-Hartman
2014-05-11T19:22:19Z

From: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>

commit 422b9b9684db3c511e65c91842275c43f5910ae9 upstream.

I noticed this when testing setarch. No, we don't magically
support a big endian userspace on a little endian kernel.

Signed-off-by: Anton Blanchard <anton@samba.org>
Signed-off-by: Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@kernel.crashing.org>
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@linuxfoundation.org>

---
arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h | 4 ++++
1 file changed, 4 insertions(+)

--- a/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
+++ b/arch/powerpc/include/asm/compat.h
@@ -8,7 +8,11 @@
#include <linux/sched.h>

#define COMPAT_USER_HZ 100
+#ifdef __BIG_ENDIAN__
#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE "ppc\0\0"
+#else
+#define COMPAT_UTS_MACHINE "ppcle\0\0"
+#endif

typedef u32 compat_size_t;
typedef s32 compat_ssize_t;