linux-kernel - [PATCH v8 6/7] powerpc/64: Make COMPAT user-selectable disabled on littleendian by default.

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Date:   Thu, 12 Sep 2019 19:26:08 +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>,
        Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>,
        Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>,
        Breno Leitao <leitao@...ian.org>,
        Arnd Bergmann <arnd@...db.de>,
        Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@...uxfoundation.org>,
        Firoz Khan <firoz.khan@...aro.org>,
        Thomas Gleixner <tglx@...utronix.de>,
        Joel Stanley <joel@....id.au>,
        Hari Bathini <hbathini@...ux.ibm.com>,
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        Andrew Donnellan <andrew.donnellan@....ibm.com>,
        Russell Currey <ruscur@...sell.cc>,
        Diana Craciun <diana.craciun@....com>,
        "Eric W. Biederman" <ebiederm@...ssion.com>,
        David Hildenbrand <david@...hat.com>,
        Allison Randal <allison@...utok.net>,
        Andrew Morton <akpm@...ux-foundation.org>,
        Madhavan Srinivasan <maddy@...ux.vnet.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org, linux-fsdevel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: [PATCH v8 6/7] powerpc/64: Make COMPAT user-selectable disabled on littleendian by default.

On bigendian ppc64 it is common to have 32bit legacy binaries but much
less so on littleendian.

Signed-off-by: Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
Reviewed-by: Christophe Leroy <christophe.leroy@....fr>
---
v3: make configurable
---
 arch/powerpc/Kconfig | 5 +++--
 1 file changed, 3 insertions(+), 2 deletions(-)

diff --git a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
index 5bab0bb6b833..b0339e892329 100644
--- a/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
+++ b/arch/powerpc/Kconfig
@@ -264,8 +264,9 @@ config PANIC_TIMEOUT
 	default 180
 
 config COMPAT
-	bool
-	default y if PPC64
+	bool "Enable support for 32bit binaries"
+	depends on PPC64
+	default y if !CPU_LITTLE_ENDIAN
 	select COMPAT_BINFMT_ELF
 	select ARCH_WANT_OLD_COMPAT_IPC
 	select COMPAT_OLD_SIGACTION
-- 
2.23.0