linux-kernel - [PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/64: Disable COMPAT if littleendian.

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Date:   Wed, 28 Aug 2019 12:30:29 +0200
From:   Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org
Cc:     Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>,
        Benjamin Herrenschmidt <benh@...nel.crashing.org>,
        Paul Mackerras <paulus@...ba.org>,
        Michael Ellerman <mpe@...erman.id.au>,
        Alexander Viro <viro@...iv.linux.org.uk>,
        "Dmitry V. Levin" <ldv@...linux.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        "Steven Rostedt" <rostedt@...dmis.org>,
        Max Filippov <jcmvbkbc@...il.com>,
        Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
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        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
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Subject: [PATCH v2 4/4] powerpc/64: Disable COMPAT if littleendian.

ppc32le was never really a thing. Endian swap is already disabled by
default so this 32bit support is kind of useless on ppc64le.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 2 +-
 1 file changed, 1 insertion(+), 1 deletion(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 5bab0bb6b833..67cd1c4d1bae 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -265,7 +265,7 @@ config PANIC_TIMEOUT
 
 config COMPAT
 	bool
-	default y if PPC64
+	default y if PPC64 && !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 	select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
 	select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
 	select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
-- 
2.22.0