Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: IA32 emulation cleanups

2015-03-05 Thread H. Peter Anvin
On 03/03/2015 10:22 PM, Brian Gerst wrote: > > It looks like most cases can simply be replaced. There are some > subtle relations with the x32 ABI though, and that will take some time > to sort out. > Yes, some aspects of CONFIG_COMPAT is used also by x32. Overall the current Linux kernel hand

Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: IA32 emulation cleanups

2015-03-03 Thread Brian Gerst
On Wed, Mar 4, 2015 at 12:24 AM, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Brian Gerst wrote: > >> This series cleans up some files in the 32-bit emulation code, by merging >> with the native 32-bit code, or in the case of the syscall audit, using the >> generic compat code that was recently added. >> >> Brian Ge

Re: [PATCH 0/5] x86: IA32 emulation cleanups

2015-03-03 Thread Ingo Molnar
* Brian Gerst wrote: > This series cleans up some files in the 32-bit emulation code, by merging > with the native 32-bit code, or in the case of the syscall audit, using the > generic compat code that was recently added. > > Brian Gerst (5): > x86: Remove compat_ni_syscall() > x86: Merge n

[PATCH 0/5] x86: IA32 emulation cleanups

2015-03-03 Thread Brian Gerst
This series cleans up some files in the 32-bit emulation code, by merging with the native 32-bit code, or in the case of the syscall audit, using the generic compat code that was recently added. Brian Gerst (5): x86: Remove compat_ni_syscall() x86: Merge native and compat 32-bit syscall tables