Messages in this thread | | | From | Andy Lutomirski <> | Date | Fri, 30 Dec 2016 17:38:17 -0800 | Subject | Re: [RFC 2/4] x86/thread_info: kill TIF_ADDR32 in favour of ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT |
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On Fri, Dec 30, 2016 at 7:56 AM, Dmitry Safonov <dsafonov@virtuozzo.com> wrote: > This thread flag is completely x86-specific, consolidate it with > ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT personality which is defined but not used on x86. > It will free one of thread flags and consolidate personality with > other arches. > After this commit ADDR_LIMIT_32BIT is set by the kernel automatically > in COMPAT_SET_PERSONALITY() for 32-bit ELF files and for 32-bit a.out. > It's cleared in SET_PERSONALITY() for 64-bit ELFs.
I'm okay with this as a plain cleanup, but I'm not convinced that this is really the right long-term solution. See next email.
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