From mboxrd@z Thu Jan 1 00:00:00 1970 Return-Path: Received: (majordomo@vger.kernel.org) by vger.kernel.org via listexpand id S1756355Ab2C1Buc (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:50:32 -0400 Received: from terminus.zytor.com ([198.137.202.10]:48125 "EHLO mail.zytor.com" rhost-flags-OK-OK-OK-OK) by vger.kernel.org with ESMTP id S1751365Ab2C1Bub (ORCPT ); Tue, 27 Mar 2012 21:50:31 -0400 Message-ID: <4F726E56.4070405@zytor.com> Date: Tue, 27 Mar 2012 18:50:14 -0700 From: "H. Peter Anvin" User-Agent: Mozilla/5.0 (X11; Linux x86_64; rv:10.0.1) Gecko/20120209 Thunderbird/10.0.1 MIME-Version: 1.0 To: Ingo Molnar CC: Linus Torvalds , linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner , Andrew Morton Subject: Re: [GIT PULL] Introduce the X32 binary format on x86, for v3.4 References: <20120319175002.GA21093@gmail.com> In-Reply-To: <20120319175002.GA21093@gmail.com> X-Enigmail-Version: 1.4 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1 Content-Transfer-Encoding: 7bit Sender: linux-kernel-owner@vger.kernel.org List-ID: X-Mailing-List: linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org On 03/19/2012 10:50 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > Linus, > > Please pull the latest x86-x32-for-linus git tree from: > > git://git.kernel.org/pub/scm/linux/kernel/git/tip/tip.git x86-x32-for-linus > > HEAD: 31796ac4e8f0e88f5c10f1ad6dab8f19bebe44a4 x32: Fix alignment fail in struct compat_siginfo > > This tree introduces the X32 binary format and execution mode > for x86: 32-bit data space binaries using 64-bit instructions > and 64-bit kernel syscalls. > > This allows applications whose working set fits into a 32 bits > address space to make use of 64-bit instructions while using a > 32-bit address space with shorter pointers, more compressed data > structures, etc. > Hi Linus, Any problem either with this tree and/or the pull request? The posix_types.h revamp ended up being part of this request (because x32 depends on it) but is technically standalone. -hpa