Re: [PATCH v6 11/17] ptrace: Allow compat to use the native siginfo

From	Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de>
Newsgroups	linux.kernel
Subject	Re: [PATCH v6 11/17] ptrace: Allow compat to use the native siginfo
Date	2015-11-05 15:00 +0100
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On Tuesday 03 November 2015 02:30:40 Yury Norov wrote:
> From: Andrew Pinski <apinski@cavium.com>
> 
> Set COMPAT_USE_NATIVE_SIGINFO to be true for non AARCH32 tasks.
> 
> With ARM64 ILP32 ABI, we want to use the non-compat
> siginfo as we want to simplify signal handling for this new ABI.
> This patch just adds a new define COMPAT_USE_NATIVE_SIGINFO and
> if it is true then read/write in the compat case as it was the
> non-compat case.

Why does this use compat_ptrace_request()? I assume there is
a good reason for it, but I'm surprised you don't use the native
64-bit ptrace syscall.

	Arnd
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[RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 03/17] arm64: rename COMPAT to AARCH32_EL0 in Kconfig Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 04/17] arm64: change some CONFIG_COMPAT over to use CONFIG_AARCH32_EL0 instead Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 10/17] arm64:ilp32: support core dump generation for ILP32 Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 08/17] arm64:ilp32: share HWCAP between LP64 and ILP32 Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 14/17] aarch64: ilp32: use generic stat64 structure Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 14/17] aarch64: ilp32: use generic stat64 structure Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-05 15:20 +0100
  [PATCH v6 01/17] arm64:ilp32: add documentation on the ILP32 ABI for ARM64 Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 01/17] arm64:ilp32: add documentation on the ILP32 ABI for ARM64 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-05 15:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 11/17] ptrace: Allow compat to use the native siginfo Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 11/17] ptrace: Allow compat to use the native siginfo Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-05 15:00 +0100
  [PATCH v6 15/17] arm64:ilp32: use the native siginfo instead of the compat siginfo Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 07/17] arm64:ilp32: add is_ilp32_compat_{task,thread} and TIF_32BIT_AARCH64 Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-05 15:00 +0100
    Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-11 19:00 +0100
      Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-11 21:50 +0100
        Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-12 00:10 +0100
          Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-12 00:30 +0100
            Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-12 10:00 +0100
              Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-12 10:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-12 10:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-12 14:30 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-12 14:50 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-13 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate  table (in entry.S) to use it Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> - 2015-11-13 16:40 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-13 17:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate table (in entry.S) to use it Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-15 16:20 +0100
                Re: [PATCH v6 13/17] arm64:ilp32: add sys_ilp32.c and a separate  table (in entry.S) to use it Joseph Myers <joseph@codesourcery.com> - 2015-11-16 11:20 +0100
  [PATCH v6 17/17] arm64:ilp32: add ARM64_ILP32 to Kconfig Yury Norov <ynorov@caviumnetworks.com> - 2015-11-03 00:40 +0100
  Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-05 12:40 +0100
    Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Andrew Pinski <pinskia@gmail.com> - 2015-11-05 14:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-09 11:10 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 "Zhangjian (Bamvor)" <bamvor.zhangjian@huawei.com> - 2015-11-11 08:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-11 09:50 +0100
      Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-09 14:30 +0100
        Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-09 15:30 +0100
          Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Andreas Schwab <schwab@suse.de> - 2015-11-09 15:40 +0100
            Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 Arnd Bergmann <arnd@arndb.de> - 2015-11-09 15:40 +0100
              Re: [RFC PATCH v6 00/17] ILP32 for ARM64 pinskia@gmail.com - 2015-11-09 16:10 +0100

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