From: Arnd Bergmann <arnd@xxxxxxxx> Date: Wed, 3 Feb 2010 18:06:27 +0100 >> But if the consensus is that we should fix this properly I can >> replace the patch with one introducing a compat_sys_personality >> which only gets used for compat tasks. > > Right now, sparc64 and powerpc64 use sys32_personality for both native > and compat tasks, x86 never uses it and all others use it only for > compat tasks. That seems more sensible if we keep this function at > all. If it only gets used for compat tasks, you can only switch in one direction. I think it needs to be handled for both compat and non-compat tasks, in order to allow for that. That's why powerpc64 and sparc64 do things the way they do, I am pretty sure. -- To unsubscribe from this list: send the line "unsubscribe linux-arch" in the body of a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx More majordomo info at http://vger.kernel.org/majordomo-info.html
