linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: Add a wrapper for personality() syscall

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Message-ID: <570FC9B0.50201@arm.com>
Date:	Thu, 14 Apr 2016 17:47:44 +0100
From:	Suzuki K Poulose <Suzuki.Poulose@....com>
To:	Will Deacon <will.deacon@....com>
Cc:	linux-arm-kernel@...ts.infradead.org, linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org,
	mark.rutland@....com, marc.zyngier@....com,
	ynorov@...iumnetworks.com
Subject: Re: [PATCH v3 6/7] arm64: Add a wrapper for personality() syscall

On 14/04/16 17:44, Will Deacon wrote:
> On Thu, Mar 31, 2016 at 06:27:34PM +0100, Suzuki K Poulose wrote:
>> In order to prevent setting PER_LINUX32 on systems without
>> 32bit EL0 support, add a wrapper for personality() syscall.
>>

>>   /*
>>    * Wrappers to pass the pt_regs argument.
>>    */
>>   asmlinkage long sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper(void);
>>   #define sys_rt_sigreturn	sys_rt_sigreturn_wrapper
>> +#define sys_personality		sys_arm64_personality
>
> You can merge this in with the subsequent patch, since it doesn't do
> anything on its own.
>

OK, I kept it separate because we were in effect modifying the syscall table
contents. I can merge it.

Suzuki