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From: Christoph Hellwig <hch@infradead.org>
To: Andy Shevchenko <andriy.shevchenko@linux.intel.com>
Cc: Paul Bolle <pebolle@tiscali.nl>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com>,
	Geert Uytterhoeven <geert@linux-m68k.org>,
	Richard Weinberger <richard@nod.at>,
	Anton Ivanov <anton.ivanov@cambridgegreys.com>,
	Linux Kernel Mailing List <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Bartosz Golaszewski <bgolaszewski@baylibre.com>,
	Linus Walleij <linus.walleij@linaro.org>,
	Nick Hu <nickhu@andestech.com>, Greentime Hu <green.hu@gmail.com>,
	Vincent Chen <deanbo422@gmail.com>
Subject: Re: Build regressions/improvements in v5.9-rc8
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:48:42 +0100	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <20201007134842.GA1869@infradead.org> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201007130241.GA4077@smile.fi.intel.com>

On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 04:02:41PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote:
> On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:45:30PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote:
> > Richard Weinberger schreef op wo 07-10-2020 om 14:08 [+0200]:
> > > UML has no ia32 emulation and therefore no in_ia32_syscall().
> > > Maybe you can check for CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION too?
> > 
> > The pending fix is:
> >     #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && !defined(CONFIG_UML)
> > 
> > Since this check guards in_ia32_syscall() just checking CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION
> > should do too.
> > 
> > (Way outside my limited expertise, but anyway: is does look odd to see a call
> > to in_ia32_syscall() in drivers/. All other calls are in arch/x86/. Isn't this
> > a bit too x86 specific for an arch independent driver?)
> 
> According to Arnd who suggested that fix the problem is basically appears on
> x86. He also mentioned the new approach that Christoph Hellwig is working on.
> But we decided to go the ifdeffery for better backporting.

linux-next has compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup(), which is the
proper thing to use.  But for now you'll need the ifdef mess.

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-07 13:48 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 12+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-05  9:30 Build regressions/improvements in v5.9-rc8 Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-05  9:35 ` Geert Uytterhoeven
2020-10-05 12:58   ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-07 11:47     ` Paul Bolle
2020-10-07 11:58       ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-07 12:05         ` Paul Bolle
2020-10-07 12:08       ` Richard Weinberger
2020-10-07 12:45         ` Paul Bolle
2020-10-07 13:01           ` Richard Weinberger
2020-10-07 13:02           ` Andy Shevchenko
2020-10-07 13:48             ` Christoph Hellwig [this message]
2020-10-07 14:28               ` Andy Shevchenko

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