linux-kernel - Re: [PATCH] s390: ptrace: hard-code "s390x" instead of UTS

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Message-ID: <your-ad-here.call-01588242134-ext-2784@work.hours>
Date:   Thu, 30 Apr 2020 12:22:14 +0200
From:   Vasily Gorbik <gor@...ux.ibm.com>
To:     Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
Cc:     Heiko Carstens <heiko.carstens@...ibm.com>,
        Christian Borntraeger <borntraeger@...ibm.com>,
        linux-s390@...r.kernel.org,
        Gerald Schaefer <gerald.schaefer@...ibm.com>,
        Martin Schwidefsky <schwidefsky@...ibm.com>,
        Nayna Jain <nayna@...ux.ibm.com>,
        Oleg Nesterov <oleg@...hat.com>,
        Philipp Rudo <prudo@...ux.ibm.com>,
        linux-kernel@...r.kernel.org
Subject: Re: [PATCH] s390: ptrace: hard-code "s390x" instead of UTS_MACHINE

On Mon, Apr 13, 2020 at 10:31:13AM +0900, Masahiro Yamada wrote:
> s390 uses the UTS_MACHINE defined arch/s390/Makefile as follows:
> 
>   UTS_MACHINE     := s390x
> 
> We do not need to pass the fixed string from the command line.
> Hard-code user_regset_view::name, like many other architectures do.
> 
> Signed-off-by: Masahiro Yamada <masahiroy@...nel.org>
> ---
> 
>  arch/s390/kernel/Makefile | 5 -----
>  arch/s390/kernel/ptrace.c | 2 +-
>  2 files changed, 1 insertion(+), 6 deletions(-)

Yes, since we don't have 31-bit kernel build support for s390 anymore
this makes sense.
Applied, thanks.