Messages in this thread | | | Date | Mon, 7 Sep 2015 11:14:51 +0300 | From | Mikko Rapeli <> | Subject | Re: [PATCH 15/15] x86/headers: Remove <asm/sigcontext.h> |
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On Mon, Sep 07, 2015 at 09:37:50AM +0200, Ingo Molnar wrote: > > * Mikko Rapeli <mikko.rapeli@iki.fi> wrote: > > > > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/uapi/asm/sigcontext32.h > > > > @@ -3,6 +3,6 @@ > > > > > > > > /* This is a legacy file - all the type definitions are in sigcontext.h: */ > > > > > > > > -#include <uapi/asm/sigcontext.h> > > > > +#include <asm/sigcontext.h> > > > > > > There's no asm/sigcontext.h file anymore if you apply my patches - but we could > > > reintroduce it to make the copy of UAPI headers to user-space work as-is. > > > > Actually there is, in user space :) > > I mean in the kernel arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h is gone (at least in that > series), we use the UAPI header directly. > > > Then a nice solution would be for the kernel side wrapper to do like you > > said (on top of your changes on master): > > > > --- /dev/null > > +++ b/arch/x86/include/asm/sigcontext.h > > @@ -0,0 +1,6 @@ > > +#ifndef _ASM_X86_SIGCONTEXT_H > > +#define _ASM_X86_SIGCONTEXT_H > > + > > +#include <uapi/asm/sigcontext.h> > > + > > +#endif /* _ASM_X86_SIGCONTEXT_H */ > > > > And I guess logically this belongs to commit "x86/headers: Remove > > <asm/sigcontext.h>". > > Yeah, will do this, plus some comments explaining that this is really just so that > we can keep the UAPI side compatible with a 'straight user-space copying of the > header files'. > > This won't affect the kernel as we won't include asm/sigcontext.h directly. (And > even if we do, there's no harm done.) > > Agreed?
Perfect. Thanks for takling this issue!
-Mikko
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