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Message-ID: <20150905073233.GC5817@gmail.com>
Date: Sat, 5 Sep 2015 09:32:33 +0200
From: Ingo Molnar <mingo@...nel.org>
To: Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi>
Cc: Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
Ingo Molnar <mingo@...hat.com>,
"H. Peter Anvin" <hpa@...or.com>, x86@...nel.org,
linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
Linus Torvalds <torvalds@...ux-foundation.org>,
Borislav Petkov <bp@...en8.de>,
Andy Lutomirski <luto@...nel.org>
Subject: Re: [PATCH] x86/headers: Fix (old) header file dependency bug in
uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h
* Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@....fi> wrote:
> > sigcontext32.h is a 64-bit only header (for compat functionality), and you are
> > trying to build this on i386, right?
>
> Yes, i386 32bit.
>
> > In theory we could unify them mostly, the two structures match mostly, except that
> > '_fpstate_ia32::padding' is named 'padding1' in _fpstate, and there's also some
> > legacy uglies wrt. user-space sigcontext definitions.
> >
> > So this either gets cleaned up properly, with the legacy hacks/wrappers clearly
> > isolated, or we could state that you shouldn't build 64-bit headers in 32-bit
> > environments.
>
> Should the sigcontext32.h have some 32bit ifdefs maybe?
That gets ugly pretty fast.
> I assume that the exported header files should be the same for both 64 and 32
> bit i386/x86
Yes. I have written a small series cleaning up all these header problems - I'll
send it out in a few minutes.
Thanks,
Ingo
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