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Message-Id: <1585039733.dm1rivvych.astroid@bobo.none>
Date:   Tue, 24 Mar 2020 18:54:20 +1000
From:   Nicholas Piggin <npiggin@...il.com>
To:     linuxppc-dev@...ts.ozlabs.org, Michal Suchanek <msuchanek@...e.de>
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Subject: Re: [PATCH v11 5/8] powerpc/64: make buildable without CONFIG_COMPAT

Michal Suchanek's on March 19, 2020 10:19 pm:
> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
> index 4b0152108f61..a264989626fd 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/signal.c
> @@ -247,7 +247,6 @@ static void do_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  	sigset_t *oldset = sigmask_to_save();
>  	struct ksignal ksig = { .sig = 0 };
>  	int ret;
> -	int is32 = is_32bit_task();
>  
>  	BUG_ON(tsk != current);
>  
> @@ -277,7 +276,7 @@ static void do_signal(struct task_struct *tsk)
>  
>  	rseq_signal_deliver(&ksig, tsk->thread.regs);
>  
> -	if (is32) {
> +	if (is_32bit_task()) {
>          	if (ksig.ka.sa.sa_flags & SA_SIGINFO)
>  			ret = handle_rt_signal32(&ksig, oldset, tsk);
>  		else

Unnecessary?

> diff --git a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_64.c b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_64.c
> index 87d95b455b83..2dcbfe38f5ac 100644
> --- a/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_64.c
> +++ b/arch/powerpc/kernel/syscall_64.c
> @@ -24,7 +24,6 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(long r3, long r4, long r5,
>  				   long r6, long r7, long r8,
>  				   unsigned long r0, struct pt_regs *regs)
>  {
> -	unsigned long ti_flags;
>  	syscall_fn f;
>  
>  	if (IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_PPC_IRQ_SOFT_MASK_DEBUG))
> @@ -68,8 +67,7 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(long r3, long r4, long r5,
>  
>  	local_irq_enable();
>  
> -	ti_flags = current_thread_info()->flags;
> -	if (unlikely(ti_flags & _TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE)) {
> +	if (unlikely(current_thread_info()->flags & _TIF_SYSCALL_DOTRACE)) {
>  		/*
>  		 * We use the return value of do_syscall_trace_enter() as the
>  		 * syscall number. If the syscall was rejected for any reason
> @@ -94,7 +92,7 @@ notrace long system_call_exception(long r3, long r4, long r5,
>  	/* May be faster to do array_index_nospec? */
>  	barrier_nospec();
>  
> -	if (unlikely(ti_flags & _TIF_32BIT)) {
> +	if (unlikely(is_32bit_task())) {

Problem is, does this allow the load of ti_flags to be used for both
tests, or does test_bit make it re-load?

This could maybe be fixed by testing if(IS_ENABLED(CONFIG_COMPAT) &&

Other than these, the patches all look pretty good to me.

Thanks,
Nick