Re: [PSEUDOPATCH] rename is_compat_task

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On Tue, Dec 08, 2015 at 06:01:48AM +0100, Ingo Molnar wrote:

> Hm, so if Sparc has no notion of compat-ness of the system call then how does it 
> implement runtime compat checks, such as AUDIT_ARCH et al?

Badly.  Things like compat_sys_ioctl() vs. ioctl() work (we use different
arrays of function pointers in 32bit and 64bit traps), but anything
dynamic assumes that things match the task.  Not that we had a lot of
such dynamic checks, actually...
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