It just occurs to me that the simple way to implement procfd_sigqueueinfo info is like: int copy_siginfo_from_user_any(kernel_siginfo_t *info, siginfo_t *uinfo) { #ifdef CONFIG_COMPAT if (in_compat_syscall) return copy_siginfo_from_user32(info, uinfo); #endif return copy_siginfo_from_user(info, uinfo); } long procfd_sigqueueinfo(int fd, siginfo_t *uinfo) { kernel_siginfo info; if (copy_siginfo_from_user_any(&info, uinfo)) return -EFAULT; ...; } It looks like there is already a place in ptrace.c that already hand rolls copy_siginfo_from_user_any. So while I would love to figure out the subset of siginfo_t tha we can just pass through, as I think that would make a better more forward compatible copy_siginfo_from_user32. I think for this use case we just add the in_compat_syscall test and then we just need to ensure this new system call is placed in the proper places in the syscall table. Because we will need 3 call sights: x86_64, x32 and ia32. As the layout changes between those three subarchitecuters. Eric