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Re: [PATCH v2] um: Allow building and running on older hosts

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Florian,

On Thu, May 25, 2017 at 8:36 PM, Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com> wrote:
> Commit a78ff1112263 ("um: add extended processor state save/restore
> support") and b6024b21fec8 ("um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support
> YMM registers") forced the use of the x86 FP _xstate and
> PTRACE_GETREGSET/SETREGSET. On older hosts, we would neither be able to
> build UML nor run it anymore with these two commits applied because we
> don't have definitions for struct _xstate nor these two ptrace requests.
>
> We can determine at build time which fp context structure to check
> against, just like we can keep using the old i387 fp save/restore if
> PTRACE_GETRESET/SETREGSET are not defined.
>
> Fixes: a78ff1112263 ("um: add extended processor state save/restore support")
> Fixes: b6024b21fec8 ("um: extend fpstate to _xstate to support YMM registers")
> Signed-off-by: Florian Fainelli <f.fainelli@gmail.com>

Both patches applied. Thanks a lot for fixing these regressions!

-- 
Thanks,
//richard

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Re: [PATCH v2] um: Allow building and running on older hosts Richard Weinberger <richard.weinberger@gmail.com> - 2017-07-05 23:40 +0200

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