linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v6 15/19] arm64: ilp32: force IPC

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Message-ID: <mvmoaersohn.fsf@hawking.suse.de>
Date:	Wed, 18 Nov 2015 09:25:40 +0100
From:	Andreas Schwab <schwab@...e.de>
To:	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org,
	Yury Norov <ynorov@...iumnetworks.com>,
	catalin.marinas@....com, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	pinskia@...il.com, Prasun.Kapoor@...iumnetworks.com,
	Nathan_Lynch@...tor.com, agraf@...e.de, klimov.linux@...il.com,
	broonie@...nel.org, jan.dakinevich@...il.com,
	ddaney.cavm@...il.com, bamvor.zhangjian@...wei.com,
	philipp.tomsich@...obroma-systems.com, andrey.konovalov@...aro.org,
	joseph@...esourcery.com, christoph.muellner@...obroma-systems.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v6 15/19] arm64: ilp32: force IPC_64 in msgctl, shmctl, semctl

Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de> writes:

> On Wednesday 18 November 2015 00:16:55 Yury Norov wrote:
>> 
>> +/* IPC_64 */
>> +asmlinkage long ilp32_sys_msgctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr)
>> +{
>> +       return compat_sys_msgctl(first, second | IPC_64, uptr);
>> +}
>> +#define compat_sys_msgctl              ilp32_sys_msgctl
>> +
>> +asmlinkage long ilp32_sys_shmctl(int first, int second, void __user *uptr)
>> +{
>> +       return compat_sys_shmctl(first, second | IPC_64, uptr);
>> +}
>> +#define compat_sys_shmctl              ilp32_sys_shmctl
>> +
>> +asmlinkage long ilp32_sys_semctl(int first, int second, int third, int arg)
>> +{
>> +       return compat_sys_semctl(first, second, third | IPC_64, arg);
>> +}
>> +#define compat_sys_semctl      ilp32_sys_semctl
>> 
>
> I wonder if this would be any simpler by changing compat_ipc_parse_version()

This cries for a generic solution.  Other archs migrating to separate
ipc syscalls will want to avoid the whole IPC_64 business for them, even
if they need to retain [compat_]ipc_parse_version for sys_ipc
compatibility.

Andreas.

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