linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH 4/6] improve sys_personality for compat architectures

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Date:	Wed, 03 Feb 2010 09:13:09 -0800 (PST)
From:	David Miller <davem@...emloft.net>
To:	arnd@...db.de
Cc:	hch@....de, akpm@...ux-foundation.org,
	linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-arch@...r.kernel.org,
	tony.luck@...el.com, ralf@...ux-mips.org, kyle@...artin.ca,
	benh@...nel.crashing.org, schwidefsky@...ibm.com,
	heiko.carstens@...ibm.com, tglx@...utronix.de, mingo@...hat.com,
	hpa@...or.com, viro@...iv.linux.org.uk
Subject: Re: [PATCH 4/6] improve sys_personality for compat architectures

From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:06:27 +0100

>> But if the consensus is that we should fix this properly I can
>> replace the patch with one introducing a compat_sys_personality
>> which only gets used for compat tasks.
> 
> Right now, sparc64 and powerpc64 use sys32_personality for both native
> and compat tasks, x86 never uses it and all others use it only for
> compat tasks. That seems more sensible if we keep this function at
> all.

If it only gets used for compat tasks, you can only switch in
one direction.  I think it needs to be handled for both compat
and non-compat tasks, in order to allow for that.

That's why powerpc64 and sparc64 do things the way they do,
I am pretty sure.
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