Messages in this thread | | | Date | Wed, 7 Oct 2020 14:48:42 +0100 | From | Christoph Hellwig <> | Subject | Re: Build regressions/improvements in v5.9-rc8 |
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On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 04:02:41PM +0300, Andy Shevchenko wrote: > On Wed, Oct 07, 2020 at 02:45:30PM +0200, Paul Bolle wrote: > > Richard Weinberger schreef op wo 07-10-2020 om 14:08 [+0200]: > > > UML has no ia32 emulation and therefore no in_ia32_syscall(). > > > Maybe you can check for CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION too? > > > > The pending fix is: > > #if defined(CONFIG_X86_64) && !defined(CONFIG_UML) > > > > Since this check guards in_ia32_syscall() just checking CONFIG_IA32_EMULATION > > should do too. > > > > (Way outside my limited expertise, but anyway: is does look odd to see a call > > to in_ia32_syscall() in drivers/. All other calls are in arch/x86/. Isn't this > > a bit too x86 specific for an arch independent driver?) > > According to Arnd who suggested that fix the problem is basically appears on > x86. He also mentioned the new approach that Christoph Hellwig is working on. > But we decided to go the ifdeffery for better backporting.
linux-next has compat_need_64bit_alignment_fixup(), which is the proper thing to use. But for now you'll need the ifdef mess.
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