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Date:	Wed, 23 Apr 2014 07:27:18 +1000
From:	Stephen Rothwell <sfr@...b.auug.org.au>
To:	Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com>
Cc:	linux-next@...r.kernel.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	Richard Briggs <rgb@...hat.com>, sparclinux@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: linux-next: build failure after merge of the audit tree

Hi Eric,

On Tue, 22 Apr 2014 12:32:40 -0400 Eric Paris <eparis@...hat.com> wrote:
>
> I swear I saw this and I fixed it.  Drat.  Do we want to do it this way?
> Above in syscall_get_arguments() they use
> 
> #ifdef CONFIG_SPARC64
>         if (test_tsk_thread_flag(task, TIF_32BIT))
>                 zero_extend = 1;
> #endif
> 
> Is CONFIG_SPARC64 a better choice than:
>    defined(__sparc__) && defined(__arch64__)

I have no idea, I just copied the test from thread_info.h.

> Maybe even better would be to copy what you suggested in powerpc:

That would be better, except ...

> diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h
> index fed3d51..49f71fd 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h
> +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/syscall.h
> @@ -128,8 +128,7 @@ static inline void syscall_set_arguments(struct task_struct *task,
>  
>  static inline int syscall_get_arch(void)
>  {
> -	return test_thread_flag(TIF_32BIT) ? AUDIT_ARCH_SPARC
> -					   : AUDIT_ARCH_SPARC64;
> +	return is_32bit_task() ? AUDIT_ARCH_SPARC : AUDIT_ARCH_SPARC64;
>  }
>  
>  #endif /* __ASM_SPARC_SYSCALL_H */
> diff --git a/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h b/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h
> index 96efa7a..acd2be0 100644
> --- a/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h
> +++ b/arch/sparc/include/asm/thread_info_32.h
> @@ -130,6 +130,8 @@ register struct thread_info *current_thread_info_reg asm("g6");
>  #define _TIF_DO_NOTIFY_RESUME_MASK	(_TIF_NOTIFY_RESUME | \
>  					 _TIF_SIGPENDING)
>  
> +#define is_32bit_task()	(0)

Shouldn't that be (1) ?

-- 
Cheers,
Stephen Rothwell                    sfr@...b.auug.org.au

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