linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h

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Date:	Wed, 31 Oct 2007 14:06:11 -0700
From:	"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>
To:	"Kirill A. Shutemov" <k.shutemov@...il.com>
CC:	Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
	Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
	David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
	Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] Unexport asm/user.h and linux/user.h

Kirill A. Shutemov wrote:
> Do not export asm/user.h and linux/user.h during make headers_install.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Kirill A. Shutemov <k.shutemov@...il.com>
> Reviewed-By: David Woodhouse <dwmw2@...radead.org>
> Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>
> Cc: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>
> Cc: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

The version that is in there is currently broken from a user-space 
perspective (gdb expects u_ar0 to be struct user_regs_struct *, which it 
isn't for a bunch of the architectures defined); it *could* be argued 
the right thing is to fix it up since it *does* export an ABI
-- specifically, the format of a.out core dumps -- but it is probably 
easier to just axe it; userspace has had to deal with this issue on its 
own for a long time already.

As such,

Acked-by: H. Peter Anvin <hpa@...or.com>

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