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From: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>
To: Gabriel Krisman Bertazi <krisman@collabora.com>
Cc: Andrew Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>,
	Thomas Gleixner <tglx@linutronix.de>,
	Christoph Hellwig <hch@lst.de>, "H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@zytor.com>,
	Borislav Petkov <bp@alien8.de>, Robert Richter <rric@kernel.org>,
	Peter Zijlstra <peterz@infradead.org>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@redhat.com>, X86 ML <x86@kernel.org>,
	LKML <linux-kernel@vger.kernel.org>,
	Dave Hansen <dave.hansen@linux.intel.com>,
	"Christopherson, Sean J" <sean.j.christopherson@intel.com>,
	kernel@collabora.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 06/10] x86: elf: Use e_machine to select start_thread for x32
Date: Wed, 7 Oct 2020 17:05:51 -0700	[thread overview]
Message-ID: <CALCETrW5Oq0L0G7JrjYLFp08+y4kr0STkmn8cf4LKcHOfz0heQ@mail.gmail.com> (raw)
In-Reply-To: <20201004032536.1229030-7-krisman@collabora.com>

On Sat, Oct 3, 2020 at 8:26 PM Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
<krisman@collabora.com> wrote:
>
> Since TIF_X32 is going away, avoid using it to find the ELF type in
> compat_start_thread.
>
> According to SysV AMD64 ABI Draft, an AMD64 ELF object using ILP32 must
> have ELFCLASS32 with (E_MACHINE == EM_X86_64), so use that ELF field to
> differentiate a x32 object from a IA32 object when executing
> start_thread in compat mode.

Hmm, I suppose I can live with this.  It's not fundamentally worse
than any of the other ELF compat hacks.

Reviewed-by: Andy Lutomirski <luto@kernel.org>

  reply	other threads:[~2020-10-08  0:06 UTC|newest]

Thread overview: 24+ messages / expand[flat|nested]  mbox.gz  Atom feed  top
2020-10-04  3:25 [PATCH v3 00/10] Reclaim TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 01/10] x86: events: Avoid TIF_IA32 when checking 64bit mode Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] perf/x86: " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 02/10] x86: Simplify compat syscall userspace allocation Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/compat: " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 03/10] x86: oprofile: Avoid TIF_IA32 when checking 64bit mode Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/oprofile: " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 04/10] x86: elf: Use e_machine to choose DLINFO in compat Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/elf: " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 05/10] elf: Expose ELF header in compat_start_thread Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] elf: Expose ELF header in compat_start_thread() tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 06/10] x86: elf: Use e_machine to select start_thread for x32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-08  0:05   ` Andy Lutomirski [this message]
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/elf: " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 07/10] elf: Expose ELF header on arch_setup_additional_pages Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] elf: Expose ELF header on arch_setup_additional_pages() tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 08/10] x86: elf: Use e_machine to select additional_pages between x32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/elf: Use e_machine to check for x32/ia32 in setup_additional_pages() tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 09/10] x86: Convert mmu context ia32_compat into a proper flags field Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-08  0:07   ` Andy Lutomirski
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] x86/mm: " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-04  3:25 ` [PATCH v3 10/10] x86: Reclaim TIF_IA32 and TIF_X32 Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-10-26 12:52   ` [tip: x86/cleanups] " tip-bot2 for Gabriel Krisman Bertazi
2020-11-05 20:01   ` [PATCH v3 10/10] " Dmitry Safonov

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